The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 13
The emperor listened eagerly to their tale, then called his daughter to him and repeated it to her.
Who acts: emperor, horsemen · What happens: listen, call, repeat, tell · To what, where: daughter, emperor, tale, hottest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, horsemen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 3 listened | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tale | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tale | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 called | advmod |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 repeated | cc |
| 16 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 repeated | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 repeated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the emperor | to horsemen's tale; eagerly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | emperor's daughter | emperor | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | repeat | past | tale | hottest = hot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | tell | horsemen = horseman | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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