The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 43
By-and-by they reached an inn, and at sight of it the king’s son said, “I am very hungry.
Who acts: apples, I · What happens: reach, say, be, sight · To what, where: inn, sight · 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 (apples, I), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 reached | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 inn | det |
| 9 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sight | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sight | conj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 hungry | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hungry | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 hungry | advmod |
| 26 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | apples = apple | a inn | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent inn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sight of sight and the king's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sight | sight | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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