The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 71
“Old fool,” he cried, as soon as he could speak, “did you really believe that my strength came from that tree?”
Who acts: Dragon, you, strength · What happens: cry, speak, believe, come · To what, where: Old fool, tree · 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, strength), 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 fool | punct |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fool | amod |
| 3 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fool | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fool | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 soon | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 speak | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 speak | aux |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 soon | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 believe | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 believe | punct |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 believe | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 believe | nsubj |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 believe | advmod |
| 20 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 strength | nmod:poss |
| 23 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 believe | ccomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Dragon | Old fool | soon property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | could | Dragon | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | believe in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | my strength | that tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location |
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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