The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 91
“I did not think that you could have lived so long without food,” said he, “and as you have had plenty of time to repent your wicked conduct, I will grant you pardon, on condition that you help me in a sore strait.
Who acts: I, you, prisoner, condition, your · What happens: not think, live, say, have, repent, grant · To what, where: plenty, wicked conduct, pardon, you, prisoner, sore strait · 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 (I, you, prisoner, condition), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lived | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lived | aux |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 think | ccomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 lived | advmod |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 food | case |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 grant | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 grant | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 grant | cc |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 had | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | aux |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 grant | advcl |
| 26 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plenty | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 repent | mark |
| 30 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 time | acl |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 conduct | amod |
| 33 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 repent | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 grant | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 grant | aux |
| 37 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 grant | obj |
| 39 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 grant | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 condition | punct |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 condition | case |
| 42 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 grant | parataxis |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 help | nsubj |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 help | nsubj |
| 45 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 condition | acl:relcl |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 help | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 strait | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 strait | det |
| 49 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 strait | amod |
| 50 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 help | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live in a quote | could · perfect | you | without food; long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prisoner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present · perfect | you | plenty of time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 5 | repent in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your wicked conduct | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grant in a quote | future | prisoner | pardon | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal pardon=Theme | |||
| 7 | help in a quote | present | condition | prisoner | a sore strait | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 8 | conduct in a quote | your | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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