The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 67
This state of affairs lasted some time, till one day a messenger arrived from the Sultan bearing a letter for the king, and also three canes.
Who acts: state, messenger · What happens: last, arrive, bear · To what, where: three canes, Sultan, letter
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 (state, messenger), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lasted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 affairs | case |
| 4 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 state | nmod |
| 5 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lasted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 arrived | mark |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 messenger | det |
| 13 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lasted | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Sultan | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 18 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 arrived | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 letter | det |
| 20 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bearing | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 letter | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 canes | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 canes | cc |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 three | advmod |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 canes | nummod |
| 28 | canes | cane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lasted | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | this state of affairs | three canes | time | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | a messenger | the Sultan | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sultan=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bear | gerund | a messenger not said here | a letter | for the king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus for king=Attribute |
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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