The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 4
“You must not spoil him,” observed the king one day, when he had been watching them playing together.
Who acts: You, king · What happens: not spoil, observe, watch, play · To what, where: king, toys
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 (You, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoil | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 spoil | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoil | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 spoil | advmod |
| 5 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoil | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoil | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoil | punct |
| 9 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoil | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | obj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 watching | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 watching | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 watching | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 watching | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 watching | aux |
| 19 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 spoil | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 watching | obj |
| 21 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 watching | advcl |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 playing | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spoil in a quote | must | You | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | You not said here | the king | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||
| 3 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | king | toys = toy | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | play | gerund | king not said here | together property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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