The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 61
However, he shrank from the idea of murder, so he contented himself with placing the dagger in his own belt, and, saddling Omar’s swift horse for himself, was many miles away before the prince woke up to realise his losses.
Who acts: Labakan, prince · What happens: shrink, content, place, saddle, be, wake up · To what, where: Labakan, dagger, own belt, swift horse, losses
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, prince), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 shrank | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shrank | nsubj |
| 4 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 idea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shrank | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 murder | case |
| 9 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 idea | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 contented | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 contented | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 contented | nsubj |
| 13 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrank | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 contented | obj |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 placing | mark |
| 16 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 contented | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dagger | det |
| 18 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placing | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 belt | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 belt | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 belt | amod |
| 22 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saddling | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 saddling | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saddling | punct |
| 26 | saddling | saddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shrank | advcl |
| 27 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 horse | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Omar | case |
| 29 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 horse | compound |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saddling | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 himself | case |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 saddling | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 away | punct |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 away | cop |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 miles | amod |
| 36 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 away | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 41 woke | advmod |
| 38 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 41 woke | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 prince | det |
| 40 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 woke | nsubj |
| 41 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrank | advcl |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 woke | compound:prt |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 realise | mark |
| 44 | realise | realise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 woke | xcomp |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 losses | nmod:poss |
| 46 | losses | loss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 realise | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shrank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | past | Labakan | from the idea of murder; however property | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from idea=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | content | past | Labakan | Labakan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | place | gerund | Labakan not said here | the dagger | Labakan's own belt | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme in belt=Destination | |||
| 4 | saddle | gerund | Labakan not said here | Omar's swift horse | for Labakan | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | past | many miles obl:unmarked; away property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wake up | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | realise | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | Labakan's losses | 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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