The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 42
Have you brought him from fairyland?” cried she, when they all stood upon the marble steps in front of the castle.
Who acts: you, roses · What happens: have, bring, cry, stand · To what, where: coach, princess, fairyland · Speech: someone speaks here
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, roses), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 fairyland | case |
| 6 | fairyland | fairyland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 fairyland | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fairyland | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 stood | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 stood | advmod |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 steps | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 steps | det |
| 18 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 steps | compound |
| 19 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 steps | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 front | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past | you | coach | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | princess | fairyland | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | past | roses = rose | upon the marble steps in front of the castle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon step=Location |
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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