The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 23
“He stole it from me,” shrieked Omar; “he betrayed my unsuspicious confidence.”
Who acts: king, my · What happens: steal, shriek, betray, confide · To what, where: matter, Omar, unsuspicious confidence
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, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 3 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
| 9 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stole | conj |
| 10 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shrieked | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 betrayed | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 betrayed | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 betrayed | nsubj |
| 14 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stole | parataxis |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | unsuspicious | unsuspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 confidence | amod |
| 17 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 betrayed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal in a quote | past | king | matter | from Hold | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from i=Source | |||
| 2 | shriek | past | king not said here | Omar | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location omar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | betray in a quote | past | king | my unsuspicious confidence | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | confide in a quote | my | 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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