The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 1
Quite early next morning came the Lord Chamberlain, carrying a lamp and he nearly fell backwards with surprise when he saw the shepherd alive and well.
Who acts: next morning, he · What happens: come, carry, fall, see · To what, where: Lord Chamberlain, lamp, shepherd
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next morning, he), 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 early | advmod |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Chamberlain | det |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chamberlain | compound |
| 8 | Chamberlain | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carrying | punct |
| 10 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lamp | det |
| 12 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carrying | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 17 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 surprise | case |
| 19 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 saw | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shepherd | det |
| 24 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 saw | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 well | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 alive | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | next morning | the Lord Chamberlain | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chamberlain=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | next morning not said here | a lamp | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | he | with surprise; backwards, nearly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | he | the shepherd | alive property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=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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