The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 73
The messengers asked: “Who owns this field of golden maize?”
Who acts: messengers · What happens: ask, own · To what, where: field · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (messengers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 messengers | det |
| 2 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 owns | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 owns | punct |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 owns | nsubj |
| 7 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 owns | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 maize | case |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maize | amod |
| 12 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 field | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 owns | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 owns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the messengers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | own in a quote | present | this field of golden maize | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot field=Theme |
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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