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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 95

In a few minutes he returned saying: “Your Majesty, it is a little boy who is kneeling there sobbing because his mother has beaten him.”

Who acts: man, dream, little boy, mother · What happens: return, say, be, kneel, sob, beat · To what, where: few minutes, Majesty, little boy, man · 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 (man, dream, little boy, mother), 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

casedetamodoblnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctnmod:possobjpunctnsubjcopdetamodccompnsubjauxacl:relcladvmodconjmarknmod:possnsubjauxadvclobjpunctpunctrootInADPaDETfewADJminutesNOUNhePRONreturnedVERBsayingVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTYourPRONMajestyNOUN,PUNCTitPRONisAUXaDETlittleADJboyNOUNwhoPRONisAUXkneelingVERBthereADVsobbingVERBbecauseSCONJhisPRONmotherNOUNhasAUXbeatenVERBhimPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_4 minutescase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 minutesdet
3fewfewADJDegree=Pos4 minutesamod
4minutesminuteNOUNNumber=Plur7 sayingobl
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 returnednsubj
6returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 minutesacl:relcl
7sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
8::PUNCT_11 Majestypunct
9“"PUNCT_11 Majestypunct
10YouryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 Majestynmod:poss
11MajestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing7 sayingobj
12,,PUNCT_17 boypunct
13ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 boynsubj
14isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 boycop
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 boydet
16littlelittleADJDegree=Pos17 boyamod
17boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing7 sayingccomp
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel20 kneelingnsubj
19isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 kneelingaux
20kneelingkneelVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 boyacl:relcl
21therethereADVPronType=Dem20 kneelingadvmod
22sobbingsobVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 kneelingconj
23becausebecauseSCONJ_27 beatenmark
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 mothernmod:poss
25mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing27 beatennsubj
26hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 beatenaux
27beatenbeatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part22 sobbingadvcl
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 beatenobj
29..PUNCT_17 boypunct
30”"PUNCT_17 boypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1returnpastmana few minutes not said herevn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minute=Theme
2say speech: assertgerundYour Majestyminutevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent majesty=Topic
3is a in a quotepresentdreama little boytree rules
4kneel in a quotepresent · progressivea little boytherevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5sob in a quotegerunda little boy not said herevn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6beat in a quotepresent · perfectman's mothermanvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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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