The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 10
Now this was a holy man, who had heard of the trouble the king’s son was in, and had come to help.
Who acts: this, holy man · What happens: be, hear, come, help · To what, where: holy man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, holy man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 man | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 man | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trouble | det |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 in | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trouble | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 in | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 heard | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 help | mark |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 come | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | a holy man | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | a holy man | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | of the trouble the king's son; in property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | a holy man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | a holy man not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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