The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 75
“We shall be sure to find out the answer”; and she ran away to the tower, and told the young man what had occurred.
Who acts: We, Sultan · What happens: be, find out, run away, tell, occur · To what, where: answer, tower, young man · 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 (We, Sultan), 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 | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 find | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 answer | det |
| 10 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answer | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | parataxis |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 ran | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tower | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ran | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | iobj |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 occurred | aux |
| 28 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 told | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | We | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | the answer | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | Sultan | the tower | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tower=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Sultan not said here | the young man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | occur | past · perfect · passive | 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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