The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 73
It was brought to his bedside, and as he raised the lid cries were heard, and peeping in he saw two little children.
Who acts: king, peeping · What happens: bring, raise, hear, peep, see · To what, where: basket, bedside, lid cries, two little children · 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 (king, peeping), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | aux:pass |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bedside | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bedside | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 raised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 raised | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 raised | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 raised | nsubj |
| 11 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cries | det |
| 13 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cries | compound |
| 14 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 raised | obj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux:pass |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cries | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 19 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 saw | csubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 he | case |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 peeping | obl |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 raised | conj |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 children | nummod |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 children | amod |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | basket | king's bedside | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bedside=Destination | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | king | the lid cries | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | the lid cries not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | |||||
| 4 | peep | gerund | in king | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | past | peeping | two little children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
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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