The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 19
So I hope to-morrow he will kill the dragon altogether, and deliver this land from the monster who has slain so many of our bravest men.”
Who acts: I, shepherd, monster · What happens: hope, kill, deliver, slay · To what, where: dragon, land, many · 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 (I, shepherd, monster), 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 | _ | 3 hope | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hope | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 kill | aux |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | obj |
| 12 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 9 kill | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 deliver | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 deliver | cc |
| 15 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | conj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deliver | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 monster | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 monster | det |
| 20 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deliver | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 slain | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 slain | aux |
| 23 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 monster | acl:relcl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 slain | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 men | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 men | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 men | amod |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 many | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | to morrow | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | future | shepherd | the dragon | altogether property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | |||
| 3 | deliver | infinitive | I not said here | this land | from the monster | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from monster=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | slay | present · perfect | the monster | many of our bravest men | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
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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