The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 26
“I have no right to keep it any longer,” he added when he had ended his tale, “so I have brought it back to you, and inside you will find a hundred gold pieces as the price of its hire.”
Who acts: Jimmu, you · What happens: have, keep, add, end, bring back, find · To what, where: right, tale, you, hundred gold pieces · 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, you), 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 | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 added | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 right | det |
| 5 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | any | any | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 keep | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 added | nsubj |
| 14 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 ended | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ended | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ended | aux |
| 18 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 added | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tale | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ended | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 brought | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 brought | aux |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 ended | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 brought | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 find | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 find | cc |
| 33 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 34 you | case |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 find | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 find | aux |
| 36 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 added | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hundred | det |
| 38 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 pieces | nummod |
| 39 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pieces | compound |
| 40 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 find | obj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 price | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 price | det |
| 43 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 find | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 hire | case |
| 45 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 hire | nmod:poss |
| 46 | hire | hire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 price | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Jimmu | no right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | Jimmu not said here | right | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | Jimmu | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | end | past · perfect | Jimmu | Jimmu's tale | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | bring back in a quote | present · perfect | Jimmu | tale | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Destination | |||
| 6 | find in a quote | future | you | hundred gold pieces | as the price of price's hire | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent piece=Theme as price=Attribute | |||
| 7 | tell | Jimmu | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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