The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 19
At these words the king’s son shrieked with horror, for he loved the baby dearly, but he answered, “I have sworn that I would treat my friend as if he were my brother, and if there is no other way my child must be sacrificed.”
Who acts: son · What happens: shriek, love, answer, swear, treat, be · To what, where: words, baby, friend, child · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shrieked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shrieked | nsubj |
| 8 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 horror | case |
| 10 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shrieked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 loved | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shrieked | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 baby | det |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loved | obj |
| 17 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 14 loved | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 answered | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 answered | nsubj |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shrieked | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sworn | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 sworn | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 sworn | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sworn | aux |
| 26 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 answered | ccomp |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 treat | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 treat | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 treat | aux |
| 30 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sworn | advcl |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 friend | nmod:poss |
| 32 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 treat | obj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 brother | case |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 brother | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 brother | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 brother | cop |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 brother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 treat | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 sacrificed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 sacrificed | cc |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 is | mark |
| 42 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 43 is | expl |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 sacrificed | cop |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 46 way | det |
| 45 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 way | amod |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 is | nsubj |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 child | nmod:poss |
| 48 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 sacrificed | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 sacrificed | aux |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 51 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shrieked | parataxis |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 sacrificed | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | the king's son | this words | with horror | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | love | past | son | the baby | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | swear in a quote | present · perfect | son | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | treat in a quote | would | son | my friend | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | son | as my brother | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | must · present · passive | my child | sacrifice property | tree rules |
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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