The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 58
When they had finished the king’s son drew an apple out of his pocket and cut it in two; he held the big bit and the little bit out to his companion, who took the big bit at once and soon ate it up.
Who acts: king, finished son, son, companion · What happens: finish, draw, cut, hold, take, eat up · To what, where: apple, pocket, two, big bit, bit
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 (king, finished son, son, companion), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 son | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | nsubj |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 apple | det |
| 11 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obl | ||
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cut | cc |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drew | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cut | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 two | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 cut | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drew | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bit | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bit | amod |
| 26 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bit | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bit | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bit | amod |
| 30 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bit | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 bit | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 companion | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 companion | nmod:poss |
| 34 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 took | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 took | nsubj |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 companion | acl:relcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bit | det |
| 39 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bit | amod |
| 40 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | obj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 once | case |
| 42 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 37 took | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 ate | cc |
| 44 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 ate | advmod |
| 45 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 held | conj |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 ate | obj |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 ate | compound:prt |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | king | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | the king's finished son | a apple | son's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | cut | past | the king's finished son not said here | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | son | the big bit and the little bit | to son's companion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | take | past | son's companion | the big bit | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bit=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 6 | eat up | past | son not said here | bit | soon property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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