The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 101
“I suppose you don’t mind my seeing the room which it opens?” asked Sigurd, and as he spoke he saw a heavy iron door and begged Helga to unlock it for him.
Who acts: I, Sigurd, my, room, Helga · What happens: suppose, not mind, see, open, ask, speak · To what, where: room, Sigurd, heavy iron door · 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 (I, Sigurd, my, room), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mind | advmod |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 seeing | nsubj |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 mind | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 opens | nsubj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opens | nsubj |
| 14 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 room | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saw | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 spoke | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spoke | nsubj |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | advcl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 27 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 door | amod |
| 28 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 door | compound |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 begged | cc |
| 31 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | conj |
| 32 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 begged | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 unlock | mark |
| 34 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 begged | xcomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 unlock | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 unlock | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | Sigurd | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | gerund | my | the room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | open in a quote | present | the room | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Sigurd | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent sigurd=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past | Sigurd | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | see | past | Sigurd | a heavy iron door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | beg speech: request | past | Helga | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | unlock not said to happen | to-infinitive | Helga not said here | room | for Sigurd | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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