The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 81
The following year the Sultan again wanted to pick a quarrel with the king of the Magyars, so he sent another messenger to him with three foals, begging him to say which of the animals was born in the morning, which at noon, and which in the evening.
Who acts: Sultan, father · What happens: follow, want, pick, send, beg, say · To what, where: quarrel, messenger, father, animals · 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 (Sultan, father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 wanted | advmod |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pick | mark |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanted | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 quarrel | det |
| 11 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pick | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quarrel | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Magyars | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Magyars | det |
| 17 | Magyars | Magyar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 king | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 sent | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanted | conj |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 messenger | det |
| 23 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 foals | case |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 foals | nummod |
| 28 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 begging | punct |
| 30 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sent | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 begging | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 say | mark |
| 33 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 begging | xcomp |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 born | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 animals | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 animals | det |
| 37 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 born | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 born | aux:pass |
| 39 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 say | ccomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 morning | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 morning | det |
| 42 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 born | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 noon | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 noon | nsubj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 noon | case |
| 46 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 morning | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 evening | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 evening | cc |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 evening | nsubj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 evening | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 evening | det |
| 52 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obl:unmarked |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | want | past | the Sultan | again; evening; year | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | a quarrel | with the king of the Magyars | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient | |||
| 4 | send | past | father | another messenger | messenger | with three foals | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to he=Destination | ||
| 5 | beg speech: request | gerund | father not said here | father | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | bear | past · passive | the animals | morning | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Patient |
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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