The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 59
The next day the second sister had a fancy for bananas and begged so hard, that, though Maria had declared she would never do such a thing again, at last she consented, and went down the rope into the king’s garden.
Who acts: second sister, Maria · What happens: have, beg, declare, not do, consent, go down · To what, where: fancy, that, thing, last, rope, garden · 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 (second sister, Maria), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sister | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fancy | det |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 bananas | case |
| 11 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fancy | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 begged | cc |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 hard | advmod |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 begged | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 that | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 begged | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 declared | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 declared | mark |
| 20 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 declared | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 declared | aux |
| 22 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 begged | conj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 do | advmod |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 declared | ccomp |
| 27 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 thing | det:predet |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 thing | det |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obj |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 do | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 consented | punct |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 last | case |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 consented | obl |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 consented | nsubj |
| 35 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 declared | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 consented | conj |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 41 rope | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 rope | det |
| 41 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 garden | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 king | det |
| 44 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 garden | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 king | case |
| 46 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the second sister | a fancy | day | for bananas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the second sister not said here | that | hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past · perfect | Maria | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not do | would | Maria | such thing | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | consent | past | Maria | last | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | go down | past | Maria not said here | the rope | the king's garden | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient rope=Extent |
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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