The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 20
When they had finished their meal the giantess rose and said: “Thank you for all these nice dishes, and for the best lamb, the best can of beer and the nicest drink I have ever had; but—is Prince Sigurd really not at home?”
Who acts: knees, meal · What happens: finish, rise, say, thank, have, be · To what, where: you, nicest drink, Sigurd · 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 (knees, meal), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 rose | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 meal | nmod:poss |
| 6 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giantess | det |
| 8 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rose | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thank | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thank | punct |
| 14 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 Thank | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 dishes | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 dishes | det:predet |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 dishes | det |
| 19 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dishes | amod |
| 20 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Thank | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 best | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 best | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 lamb | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lamb | det |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 lamb | amod |
| 26 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 best | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lamb | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 best | det |
| 29 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 Thank | conj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 best | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 beer | case |
| 32 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 can | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 drink | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 drink | det |
| 35 | nicest | nice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 drink | amod |
| 36 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 beer | conj |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 had | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 had | aux |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 had | advmod |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 drink | acl:relcl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 Sigurd | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 Sigurd | cc |
| 43 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 Sigurd | punct |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 Sigurd | cop |
| 45 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Sigurd | nmod:desc |
| 46 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 47 | really | really | ADV | _ | 50 home | advmod |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 home | advmod |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 home | case |
| 50 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 Sigurd | appos |
| 51 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 50 home | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 home | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | knees = knee | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | knees's meal | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | knees's meal not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | for all nice dishes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for dish=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present · perfect | knees's meal = meal | the nicest drink not said here | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient | |||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | Sigurd | 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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