The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 46
Labakan was not quite so open in his confidences, but hinted that he too was of noble birth and was travelling for pleasure.
Who acts: Labakan · What happens: not be, hint, be, travel, confide · To what, where: confidences · 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 (Labakan), 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 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 open | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 open | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 open | advmod |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 open | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 open | advmod |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 confidences | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 confidences | nmod:poss |
| 9 | confidences | confidence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 open | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hinted | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hinted | cc |
| 12 | hinted | hint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 open | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 birth | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 birth | nsubj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 birth | advmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 birth | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 birth | case |
| 18 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 birth | amod |
| 19 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hinted | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 travelling | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 travelling | aux |
| 22 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 hinted | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 pleasure | case |
| 24 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 travelling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Labakan | Labakan's confidences | open property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hint speech: other | past | Labakan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Labakan | of noble birth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | travel | past · progressive | Labakan not said here | for pleasure | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | confide | Labakan | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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