The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 47
“You are no friend of mine,” thought the king’s son, and in order to part company with him he pretended to be ill and declared himself unable to proceed on his journey.
Who acts: You, friend, son · What happens: be, think, pretend, declare, proceed, journey · To what, where: friend, son, part company, journey · 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 (You, friend, son), 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 friend | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pretended | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pretended | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 company | case |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 in | fixed |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 company | mark |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 company | compound |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pretended | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 company | nmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pretended | nsubj |
| 25 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 ill | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 ill | cop |
| 28 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pretended | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 declared | cc |
| 30 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pretended | conj |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 declared | obj |
| 32 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 declared | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 proceed | mark |
| 34 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 unable | xcomp |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 journey | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 journey | nmod:poss |
| 37 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 proceed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | no friend | of no friend = friend | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | no friend | the king's son | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pretend | past | son | part company with son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | son not said here | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | declare speech: other | past | son not said here | son | unable property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute | |||
| 6 | proceed | to-infinitive | son not said here | son's journey | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | journey | son | nom journey «act 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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