The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 94
As far as I know, he is a half-crazy tailor’s apprentice from Alexandria, called Labakan, who really deserves more pity than anger.”
Who acts: I, man, Labakan · What happens: know, be, call, deserve · To what, where: apprentice, Alexandria, more pity · 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 (I, man, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 apprentice | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 apprentice | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 apprentice | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 apprentice | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tailor | det |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 crazy | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 half | punct |
| 12 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tailor | amod |
| 13 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 apprentice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 tailor | case |
| 15 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Alexandria | case |
| 17 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 apprentice | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 apprentice | acl |
| 20 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 deserves | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 deserves | nsubj |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 deserves | advmod |
| 24 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Labakan | acl:relcl |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 pity | amod |
| 26 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deserves | obj |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 anger | case |
| 28 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pity | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 apprentice | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 apprentice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | man | a crazy tailor's apprentice | Alexandria | far property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | call | participle | a crazy tailor's apprentice not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | deserve | present | Labakan | more pity | than anger | 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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