The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 67
More quickly than he could have thought possible they reached an inn by the road-side, and turning to his companion the king’s son said, “I am hungry; let us go in and have something to eat.”
Who acts: son, miles, I, us · What happens: think, reach, turn, say, be, let · To what, where: inn, companion, us, something · 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 (son, miles, I, 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 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 quickly | advmod |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 reached | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 thought | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | aux |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 reached | advcl |
| 8 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | xcomp |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | advcl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 inn | det |
| 12 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 road | punct |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turning | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turning | cc |
| 20 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 companion | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 companion | nmod:poss |
| 23 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turning | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 king | case |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 companion | nmod |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hungry | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 hungry | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 hungry | nsubj |
| 32 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 hungry | cop |
| 33 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 said | ccomp |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 let | punct |
| 35 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | ccomp |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 let | obj |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 let | xcomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADV | _ | 37 go | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 have | cc |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 let | conj |
| 41 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 have | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 eat | mark |
| 43 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 something | acl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 let | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could · perfect | son | possible property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | miles = mile | a inn | by the road side; quickly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent inn=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | gerund | son's companion the king's son | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to companion=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go in in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | have in a quote | present | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||||
| 9 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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