The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 87
“Oh, don’t be cast down,” said she, “something is sure to happen”; and she ran down to the tower to consult the youth.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: not cast down, say, be, happen, run down, consult · To what, where: tower, youth · 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), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 cast | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 cast | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cast | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cast | aux:pass |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 cast | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cast | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cast | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 happen | mark |
| 19 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | xcomp |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 happen | punct |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ran | nsubj |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 ran | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 tower | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tower | det |
| 28 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 consult | mark |
| 30 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ran | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 youth | det |
| 32 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 consult | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cast down in a quote | infinitive · passive · do-support | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Sultan | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run down | past | Sultan | the tower | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tower=Destination | |||
| 6 | consult | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | the youth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |
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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