The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 1
“They are easily carried,” said Sigurd, gazing at them with scorn; “what wretched dried-up things!
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: carry, say, gaze, dry up · To what, where: They · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd), 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 | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gazing | punct |
| 11 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gazing | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 scorn | case |
| 15 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gazing | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | parataxis |
| 19 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 20 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 things | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 up | punct |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 dried | compound:prt |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 what | nsubj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | present · passive | They | easily property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Sigurd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | Sigurd not said here | at them = they; with scorn | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dry up in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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