The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 103
But when she had gone back to her cottage, he asked the king if he might fetch something that he had left in the garden, and when he was given permission, he pulled up his little sword, which he slid into the scabbard.
Who acts: anger, Boy, little sword · What happens: go back, ask, fetch, leave, give, pull up · To what, where: king, something, garden, Boy, little sword, scabbard
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, Boy, little sword), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gone | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 gone | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cottage | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 fetch | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fetch | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fetch | aux |
| 18 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 fetch | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 left | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 left | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | aux |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 something | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 garden | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 garden | det |
| 26 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pulled | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 pulled | cc |
| 29 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 given | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 given | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 given | aux:pass |
| 32 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 pulled | advcl |
| 33 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 given | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 given | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pulled | nsubj |
| 36 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 pulled | compound:prt |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sword | nmod:poss |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 sword | amod |
| 40 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pulled | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 slid | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 slid | nsubj |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 slid | nsubj |
| 44 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 sword | acl:relcl |
| 45 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 scabbard | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 scabbard | det |
| 47 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 slid | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past · perfect | anger | to anger's cottage result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cottage=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Boy | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fetch a condition, not said to happen | might | Boy | something | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the garden | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in garden=Location | |||||
| 5 | give | past · passive | Boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient permission=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pull up | past | Boy | Boy's little sword | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | slide | past | Boy's little sword | the scabbard | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into scabbard=Destination |
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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