The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 56
And the mare answered: “It is very easy for you, you carry only your master, who is a thin man, but I carry my mistress, who is so fat that she weights as much as three.”
Who acts: mare, you, master, mistress · What happens: answer, be, carry, weight · To what, where: master, thin man, mistress, much · 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 (mare, you, master, mistress), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mare | det |
| 3 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 easy | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 easy | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 easy | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 easy | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 easy | advmod |
| 10 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 easy | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 carry | nsubj |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 master | advmod |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 man | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 master | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 carry | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 carry | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 carry | nsubj |
| 28 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 carry | conj |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fat | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 fat | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 fat | cop |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 fat | advmod |
| 35 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mistress | parataxis |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 weights | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 weights | nsubj |
| 38 | weights | weight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 fat | advcl |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 much | advmod |
| 40 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 weights | obj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 three | case |
| 42 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 much | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the mare | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the mare not said here | for you; easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | present | you | your master and a thin man | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | your master and a thin man | a thin man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry in a quote | present | the mare = mare | my mistress | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | my mistress | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | weight in a quote | present | mare | much | as three | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient |
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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