The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 11
As soon as he had tidied his house, Jimmu set off to tell his story to a friend next door.
Who acts: Jimmu · What happens: tidy, set off, tell · To what, where: house, story, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jimmu), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 set | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 tidied | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tidied | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tidied | aux |
| 6 | tidied | tidy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 set | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tidied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tidied | punct |
| 10 | Jimmu | Jimmu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 story | nmod:poss |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 friend | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 friend | det |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obl |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 door | amod |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tidy | past · perfect | Jimmu | Jimmu's house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set off | past | Jimmu | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Jimmu not said here | Jimmu's story | a friend | next door obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to friend=Recipient |
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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