The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 84
He could not expect his daughter to be lucky enough to dream rightly a second time, and as a plague had been raging through the country, and had carried off many of his soldiers, his army was even weaker than before.
Who acts: heart, army · What happens: not expect, be, dream, rage, carry off · To what, where: daughter, country, many
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 (heart, army), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 expect | advmod |
| 4 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expect | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lucky | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lucky | cop |
| 9 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 expect | advcl |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 lucky | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dream | mark |
| 12 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lucky | advcl |
| 13 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 12 dream | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dream | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 raging | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 raging | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 plague | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 plague | det |
| 21 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 raging | obl |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 raging | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 raging | aux |
| 24 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 expect | conj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 raging | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carried | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 carried | cc |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 carried | aux |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 raging | parataxis |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 carried | compound:prt |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 carried | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 soldiers | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 36 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 many | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 weaker | punct |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 army | nmod:poss |
| 39 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 weaker | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 weaker | cop |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 42 weaker | advmod |
| 42 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 carried | conj |
| 43 | than | than | ADP | _ | 44 before | case |
| 44 | before | before | ADV | _ | 42 weaker | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | could | heart | heart's daughter | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | heart not said here | enough, lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dream | to-infinitive | heart not said here | time | rightly property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | rage | past · perfect · progressive | heart not said here | the country | as a plague | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Location | |||
| 5 | carry off | past · perfect | many of heart's soldiers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | heart's army | weak 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/84/