The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 80
Our father taught us to be true to our king, and to till the ground, and to be kind to our neighbours.
Who acts: father · What happens: teach, be · To what, where: us · 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 (father), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taught | nsubj |
| 3 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 taught | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 true | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 true | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 taught | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 king | nmod:poss |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 true | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ground | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ground | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ground | mark |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taught | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kind | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kind | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kind | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 kind | cop |
| 21 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 taught | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 neighbours | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 24 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kind | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | Our father | us | till the ground | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | to our king; true property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Our father not said here | to our neighbours; kind property | tree rules |
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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