The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 95
And he went into his room to look for his shirt and to drink some magic wine, but the shirt was on Paul’s back, and as for the wine, the girl had given a cupful to Paul and then had allowed the rest to run out of the cask.
Who acts: dragon, shirt, rest · What happens: go, look, drink, be, give, allow · To what, where: room, magic wine, back, girl, rest, cask
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 (dragon, shirt, rest), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 shirt | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drink | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drink | mark |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 look | conj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 wine | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wine | amod |
| 17 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drink | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 back | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 back | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shirt | det |
| 21 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 back | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 back | cop |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 24 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 back | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Paul | case |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 given | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 given | cc |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 wine | case |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 wine | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wine | det |
| 32 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 given | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wine | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 girl | det |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 given | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 given | aux |
| 37 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 cupful | det |
| 39 | cupful | cupful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 given | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Paul | case |
| 41 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 cupful | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 allowed | cc |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 allowed | advmod |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 allowed | aux |
| 45 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 given | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 rest | det |
| 47 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 allowed | obj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 run | mark |
| 49 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 allowed | xcomp |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 53 cask | case |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 cask | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 cask | det |
| 53 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 run | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dragon | dragon's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | dragon not said here | for dragon's shirt | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for shirt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | dragon not said here | some magic wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the shirt | Paul's back | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect · passive | the girl | as the wine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient cupful=Theme | ||||
| 6 | allow | past · perfect | the rest | then | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer rest=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | the rest not said here | the cask | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cask=Trajectory |
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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