The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 110
He asked them about their journey; they answered his questions all together, and in the same words.
Who acts: sword, brothers · What happens: ask, answer, journey, question · To what, where: brothers, questions, same words
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, brothers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 questions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 together | advmod |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 words | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 words | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 words | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 answered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | sword | brothers = brother | about brothers's journey | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about journey=Topic | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | brothers = brother | sword's questions | the same words | together property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | journey | brothers = brother | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | question | sword | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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