The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 43
When they saw who was there, Maria said, “Let us go and get a bottle of wine from the cellar.
Who acts: pots, Maria, us · What happens: see, be, say, let, go, get · To what, where: us, bottle, cellar · 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 (pots, Maria, us), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 8 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 12 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bottle | det |
| 18 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wine | case |
| 20 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bottle | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 cellar | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cellar | det |
| 23 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | pots = pot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Maria | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get in a quote | infinitive | a bottle of wine | the cellar | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme from cellar=Source |
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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