The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 108
But the sooth-sayers and magicians whom he consulted as to the child’s future all said that until he was twenty-two years old he stood in danger of being injured by an enemy.
Who acts: king, sooth sayers, enemy · What happens: consult, say, be, stand, injure · To what, where: sooth sayers, danger · 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 (king, sooth sayers, enemy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sayers | det |
| 3 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sayers | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sooth | punct |
| 5 | sayers | sayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 magicians | cc |
| 7 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sayers | conj |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 consulted | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 consulted | nsubj |
| 10 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sayers | acl:relcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 16 future | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 future | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 child | case |
| 16 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consulted | obl |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 old | mark |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 old | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 old | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 old | cop |
| 23 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 years | nummod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 two | punct |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 twenty | conj |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 old | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stood | nsubj |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 old | acl:relcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 danger | case |
| 31 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | obl |
| 32 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 injured | mark |
| 33 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 injured | aux:pass |
| 34 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 danger | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 enemy | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 enemy | det |
| 37 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 injured | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | king | the sooth sayers and magicians | as the child's future | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent whom=Theme as future=Value | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sooth sayers and magicians | all property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stand | past | king | danger | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in danger=Location | ||||
| 5 | injure | gerund · passive | a enemy | danger not said here | 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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