The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 34
Altogether you may say another hundred thousand, and there is a picked body of heroes who reserve themselves for great occasions requiring particular courage.”
Who acts: you, picked body, heroes, great occasions · What happens: say, be, pick, reserve, require · To what, where: hundred thousand, heroes, particular courage · 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 (you, picked body, heroes, great occasions), 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 | Altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thousand | compound |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 say | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 is | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 13 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 body | amod |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 heroes | case |
| 16 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 body | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 reserve | nsubj |
| 18 | reserve | reserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 heroes | acl:relcl |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 reserve | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 occasions | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 occasions | amod |
| 22 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reserve | obl |
| 23 | requiring | require | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 occasions | acl |
| 24 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 courage | amod |
| 25 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 requiring | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | may | you | hundred thousand | altogether property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thousand=Topic | |||
| 2 | be | present | a picked body of heroes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick | participle | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | reserve | present | heroes | heroes = hero | for great occasions | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme for occasion=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | require | gerund | great occasions not said here | particular courage | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courage=Precondition |
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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