The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 143
Then the eldest Simon bowed and said: “We are plain folk, your Majesty, and understand simple things best.
Who acts: eldest Simon, We · What happens: bow, say, be, understand · To what, where: plain folk, simple things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest Simon, We), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Simon | det |
| 3 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Simon | amod |
| 4 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bowed | nsubj |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowed | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 folk | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 folk | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 folk | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 folk | cop |
| 12 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 folk | amod |
| 13 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Majesty | punct |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 folk | vocative |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 understand | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 understand | cc |
| 19 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowed | parataxis |
| 20 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 understand | obj |
| 22 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 understand | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the eldest Simon | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the eldest Simon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | We | plain folk | your Majesty vocative | tree rules | |||
| 4 | understand in a quote | infinitive | simple things | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=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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