The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 55
“My angel,” he answered, “be wise, and ask no questions, if you wish to get safely back to your father’s palace; I have kept my secret all these years, and do not mean to tell it now.”
Who acts: angel, you · What happens: answer, be, ask, wish, get, keep · To what, where: questions, palace · 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 (angel, you), 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 angel | nmod:poss |
| 3 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 angel | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 angel | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wise | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wise | punct |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wise | cop |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 wise | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 questions | det |
| 16 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ask | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wish | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 wish | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wish | xcomp |
| 23 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 palace | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 palace | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 father | case |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 kept | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 kept | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 kept | aux |
| 33 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 secret | nmod:poss |
| 35 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kept | xcomp |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 years | det:predet |
| 37 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 years | det |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 mean | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 mean | cc |
| 41 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 43 mean | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 mean | advmod |
| 43 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 kept | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 tell | mark |
| 45 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 mean | xcomp |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 tell | obj |
| 47 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 tell | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My angel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | no questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your father's palace | safely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | keep in a quote | present · perfect | My angel = angel | year | secret property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | not mean in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | palace | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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