The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 58
So the prince went home, and the old woman remained in the mill, and as soon as the dragon returned she said to him:
Who acts: prince, dragon, woman · What happens: go, remain, return, say · To what, where: old woman, mill, Dragon · 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 (prince, dragon, woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 woman | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 woman | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 woman | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mill | det |
| 14 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remained | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 said | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 returned | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 returned | nsubj |
| 22 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 soon | advcl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the prince | the old woman | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain | participle | the old woman not said here | the mill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mill=Location | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | woman | Dragon | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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