The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 41
“That is my case too,” said the stranger, “and, as we must both travel in the same direction, let us bear each other company.”
Who acts: That, stranger, we, us · What happens: be, say, travel, let, bear · To what, where: case, same direction, us, other company · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, stranger, we, us), 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 | _ | 5 case | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 case | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 case | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 case | nmod:poss |
| 5 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 case | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 case | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 case | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 let | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 travel | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 travel | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 travel | aux |
| 19 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 travel | advmod |
| 20 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 direction | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 direction | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 direction | amod |
| 24 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 travel | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 travel | punct |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 company | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 company | amod |
| 31 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bear | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | my case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | travel in a quote | must | we | the same direction | both property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bear in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | each other company | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=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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