The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 80
“He died suddenly last night,” said they, “and is to be buried immediately.”
Who acts: man, king · What happens: die, say, bury · 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 (man, king), 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 | _ | 3 died | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 died | advmod |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 night | amod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 died | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 buried | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 buried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buried | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 buried | aux:pass |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 buried | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 buried | aux:pass |
| 17 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 buried | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | past | man | night | suddenly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bury in a quote | present · passive | king not said here | immediately property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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