The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 22
He too was much taken with Lizina, and inquired, on first seeing her: “Are you well served by this nice, black-eyed little person?” and the cats answered with one voice: “Oh, yes, Father Gatto, we have never had so good a servant!”
Who acts: nice eyed little person, cats, we · What happens: take, inquire, see, serve, answer, not have · To what, where: house, Lizina, you, servant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nice eyed little person, cats, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Lizina | case |
| 7 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 inquired | cc |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeing | punct |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | mark |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 seeing | advmod |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 inquired | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seeing | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 served | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 served | punct |
| 18 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 served | aux:pass |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 served | nsubj |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 served | advmod |
| 21 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 taken | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 person | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 person | nsubj |
| 24 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 person | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nice | punct |
| 26 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eyed | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 black | punct |
| 28 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 person | amod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 person | amod |
| 30 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 served | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 person | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 served | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 answered | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cats | det |
| 35 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 answered | nsubj |
| 36 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 voice | case |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 voice | nummod |
| 39 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 answered | obl |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 46 Father | punct |
| 41 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 Father | punct |
| 42 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 46 Father | discourse |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Oh | punct |
| 44 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 42 Oh | discourse |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Oh | punct |
| 46 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 47 | Gatto | Gatto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Father | flat |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 had | punct |
| 49 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 had | nsubj |
| 50 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 had | aux |
| 51 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 52 had | advmod |
| 52 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 Father | acl:relcl |
| 53 | so | so | ADV | _ | 54 good | advmod |
| 54 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 had | xcomp |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 servant | det |
| 56 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 had | obj |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 46 Father | punct |
| 58 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | house | with Lizina | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | gerund | Lizina | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | present · passive | nice eyed little person | you | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | |||
| 5 | answer speech: express | past | the cats | with one voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not have in a quote | present · perfect | we | a servant | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=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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