The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 57
“When the dragon comes back, ask him where he always goes when he leaves here, and what makes him so strong; and when you have coaxed the secret from him, tell me the next time I come.”
Who acts: dragon, you, prince · What happens: come back, ask, go, leave, make, coax · To what, where: Dragon, secret, prince, next time · 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 (dragon, you, prince), 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 | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | advcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 comes | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | obj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 goes | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 goes | advmod |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | advcl |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 leaves | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leaves | nsubj |
| 16 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 goes | advcl |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 leaves | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 makes | cc |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 leaves | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 makes | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 strong | advmod |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 coaxed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 coaxed | cc |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 coaxed | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 coaxed | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 coaxed | aux |
| 30 | coaxed | coax | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 ask | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 secret | det |
| 32 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coaxed | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 coaxed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 36 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | parataxis |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 tell | iobj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 time | det |
| 39 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 time | amod |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tell | obj |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 come | nsubj |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 time | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back in a quote | present | the dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Dragon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | Dragon | always property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | present | Dragon | here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | Dragon | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product | ||||
| 6 | coax in a quote | present · perfect | you | the secret | from Dragon | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the prince = prince | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | come in a quote | present | the prince = prince | the next time not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=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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