The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 87
“St. James,” he said, “I have fulfilled the vow my parents made for me.
Who acts: James · What happens: say, fulfil, make · To what, where: vow, parents · 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 (James), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 James | nmod:desc |
| 3 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 James | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 James | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fulfilled | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fulfilled | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fulfilled | aux |
| 12 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vow | det |
| 14 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fulfilled | obj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fulfilled | obj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 parents | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | James St. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fulfil in a quote | present · perfect | James St. = james | the vow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | participle | my parents not said here | for James St. = james | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary |
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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