The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 62
“To be sure I can,” said the mason, turning back, and in a few minutes the hole was bored.
Who acts: mason, hole · What happens: be, say, turn back · 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 (mason, hole), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 4 sure | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 can | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 can | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 can | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mason | det |
| 11 | mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turning | punct |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 turning | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bored | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bored | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 minutes | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 minutes | det |
| 19 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 minutes | amod |
| 20 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bored | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hole | det |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bored | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bored | cop |
| 24 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sure | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mason | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn back | gerund | the mason not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the hole | minute | bored property | tree rules |
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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