The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 94
“Now we will reckon up accounts,” continued he, and he began at the beginning, and ended up with the flower-basket, and at each fresh misdeed Maria pulled the string, so that the doll’s head nodded assent.
Who acts: we, king, Maria, head · What happens: reckon up, continue, begin, end up, pull, nod · To what, where: accounts, beginning, string, fresh misdeed, assent · 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 (we, king, Maria, head), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckon | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 reckon | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reckon | aux |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 continued | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 reckon | compound:prt |
| 7 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reckon | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckon | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckon | punct |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 continued | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 beginning | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beginning | det |
| 18 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ended | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ended | cc |
| 21 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 continued | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 ended | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 basket | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 basket | det |
| 25 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 basket | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 flower | punct |
| 27 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ended | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pulled | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pulled | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 misdeed | case |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 misdeed | det |
| 32 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 misdeed | amod |
| 33 | misdeed | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pulled | obl |
| 34 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 pulled | nsubj |
| 35 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 continued | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 string | det |
| 37 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pulled | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 nodded | punct |
| 39 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 45 nodded | mark |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 nodded | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 doll | det |
| 42 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 head | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 doll | case |
| 44 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 nodded | nsubj |
| 45 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 pulled | conj |
| 46 | assent | assent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 nodded | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon up in a quote | future | we | accounts | now | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent account=Attribute | |||
| 2 | continue | past | king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | king | at the beginning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | end up | past | king not said here | with the flower basket | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pull | past | Maria | the string | each fresh misdeed | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent string=Theme at misdeed=Asset | |||
| 6 | nod | past | the doll's head | assent | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assent=Patient |
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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