The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 48
Next day Stone Crusher was left behind, and after him Iron Kneader, and each time the dwarf appeared, and they fared no better than Tree Comber had done.
Who acts: dwarf, stones, Tree · What happens: leave behind, appear, fare, do · To what, where: Stone
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, stones, Tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 4 | Crusher | Crusher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Stone | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 him | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 him | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 left | obl |
| 12 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kneader | compound |
| 13 | Kneader | Kneader | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 him | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 appeared | cc |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appeared | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dwarf | det |
| 19 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 him | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fared | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fared | nsubj |
| 24 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 appeared | conj |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 better | advmod |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 fared | ccomp |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 31 done | mark |
| 28 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 done | nsubj |
| 29 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tree | flat |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 done | aux |
| 31 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 better | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave behind | past · passive | Stone | after Comber; day | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | appear | past | the dwarf | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fare | past | stones = stone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | Tree | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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