The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 95
But the prince answered, “Oh, ho! my good dragon, do not crow too soon!
Who acts: prince · What happens: answer, not crow · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crow | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 crow | punct |
| 7 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 crow | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 9 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Oh | vocative |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dragon | nmod:poss |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Oh | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 crow | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 crow | advmod |
| 17 | crow | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 crow | advmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not crow in a quote | infinitive · do-support | soon property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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