The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 31
When they had spat into each other’s mouths three times, the king said:
Who acts: king · What happens: spat, say · To what, where: Beasts · 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 (king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 spat | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spat | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spat | aux |
| 4 | spat | spat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 other | case |
| 9 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spat | obj |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spat | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spat | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spat | past · perfect · passive | Beasts = beast | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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