The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 100
Then, turning to Labakan, he said: “There is an old proverb, ‘The cobbler sticks to his last.’
Who acts: king, old proverb, cobbler · What happens: turn, say, be, stick · To what, where: Labakan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, old proverb, cobbler), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turning | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Labakan | case |
| 5 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turning | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 11 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sticks | advcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 proverb | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 proverb | amod |
| 15 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sticks | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 sticks | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cobbler | det |
| 19 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sticks | nsubj |
| 20 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 last | nmod:poss |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sticks | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | king not said here | Labakan | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to labakan=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a old proverb | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stick in a quote | present | the cobbler | to king's last | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to last=Co-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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