The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 81
“Will you take care of my sheep?” said the emperor, when the young man knelt before him.
Who acts: you, emperor, young man · What happens: take, say, kneel · To what, where: care · 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 (you, emperor, young man), 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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sheep | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 emperor | det |
| 13 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knelt | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 knelt | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knelt | nsubj |
| 19 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knelt | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | you | care | of my sheep | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of sheep=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kneel | past | the young man | before emperor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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