The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 58
“I will starve you to death, you son of a dragon,” cried he, when he saw her dress streaming with blood; and he ordered all the masons and bricklayers in the town to come before him.
Who acts: father, you, dress, masons · What happens: starve, son, cry, see, stream, order · To what, where: you, dress, masons, town · 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 (father, you, dress, masons), 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 | _ | 4 starve | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 starve | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 starve | aux |
| 4 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 starve | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starve | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 son | nsubj |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starve | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dragon | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 starve | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 starve | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dress | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 dress | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 blood | case |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 streaming | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 ordered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ordered | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ordered | nsubj |
| 30 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | parataxis |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 masons | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 masons | det |
| 33 | masons | mason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 ordered | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bricklayers | cc |
| 35 | bricklayers | bricklayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 masons | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 town | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 town | det |
| 38 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 masons | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 come | mark |
| 40 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ordered | xcomp |
| 41 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 come | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve in a quote | future | father | you | to death | tree rules | |||
| 2 | son in a quote | you | of a dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | past | father | nose's dress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stream | gerund | nose's dress not said here | with blood | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=Theme | ||||
| 6 | order | past | father | all masons and bricklayers | the town | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mason=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 7 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | all masons and bricklayers not said here | before father | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=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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