The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 24
“Make me to know the language of beasts,” answered the shepherd, “that is all I desire.”
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: make, know, answer, desire · To what, where: shepherd, language · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (shepherd), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Make | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Make | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 language | det |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 beasts | case |
| 9 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 language | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shepherd | det |
| 14 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 all | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 all | cop |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 shepherd | conj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 desire | nsubj |
| 21 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 all | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | the shepherd = shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | the shepherd = shepherd not said here | the language of beasts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | desire in a quote | present | the shepherd = shepherd | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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