The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 51

“My son,” replied the old woman, “that was no hare, but a dragon who has led many men hither, and then has eaten them all.”

Who acts: son, that · What happens: reply, be, lead, eat · To what, where: old woman, hare, dragon, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, that), 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	_	3 son	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hare	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 hare	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 hare	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hare	cop
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 hare	det
15	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 led	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 led	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dragon	det
19	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 led	nsubj:pass
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 led	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 led	aux
22	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 replied	conj
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 men	amod
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 led	obj
25	hither	hither	ADV	_	22 led	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eaten	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eaten	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 eaten	advmod
29	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 eaten	aux
30	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 replied	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eaten	obj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 them	nmod:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 eaten	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	My son	the old woman and no hare			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past	that	no hare			tree rules
3	lead in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a dragon		hither property	tree rules
4	eat in a quote	present · perfect	My son not said here	Prince	then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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