The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 10
After they had both done eating the giantess said: “Thank you, sister, for your good dinner—the best lamb, the best can of beer and the best drink I have ever had; but—is not Prince Sigurd at home?”
Who acts: spirits, I · What happens: do, eat, say, thank, have, not be · To what, where: giantess, sister, you, best drink, Sigurd, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, I), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 done | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 done | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giantess | det |
| 8 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eating | obj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Thank | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Thank | punct |
| 12 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Thank | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sister | punct |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Thank | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dinner | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 dinner | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dinner | amod |
| 20 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Thank | obl |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 lamb | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lamb | det |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 lamb | amod |
| 24 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dinner | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 best | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 best | det |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 lamb | appos |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 lamb | acl:relcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 beer | case |
| 30 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 can | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 drink | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 drink | det |
| 33 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 drink | amod |
| 34 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beer | conj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 had | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 had | aux |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 had | advmod |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 drink | acl:relcl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 Sigurd | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 Sigurd | cc |
| 41 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 but | punct |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 Sigurd | cop |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 Sigurd | advmod |
| 44 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Sigurd | nmod:desc |
| 45 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | parataxis |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 home | case |
| 47 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Sigurd | obl |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 45 Sigurd | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 Sigurd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | spirits = spirit | both property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | spirits = spirit not said here | the giantess | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giantess=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | sister | you | for your good dinner | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for dinner=Attribute | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | present · perfect | I | the best drink not said here | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient | |||
| 6 | not is a in a quote | present | Sigurd | home | Prince nmod:desc | tree rules |
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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