The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 81
But the king’s son sprang up, and cried, “If my friend is dead I can stay here no longer, and cannot linger an hour in this house.”
Who acts: son, friend · What happens: spring up, cry, be, stay, not linger · To what, where: house · 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, friend), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 sprang | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 sprang | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprang | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stay | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 stay | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 dead | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dead | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dead | cop |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stay | advcl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 stay | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stay | aux |
| 20 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | conj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 stay | advmod |
| 22 | no | no | ADV | _ | 23 longer | advmod |
| 23 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 stay | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 linger | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 linger | cc |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 linger | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 linger | advmod |
| 28 | linger | linger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 stay | conj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hour | det |
| 30 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 linger | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 house | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 house | det |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 linger | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the king's son | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the king's son not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | my friend | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | can | the king's son = son | here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | not linger in a quote | can | the king's son = son not said here | this house | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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