The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 43
“Now,” cried the prince, holding the sparrow in his hand, “now you shall tell me where I can find my brothers.”
Who acts: prince, you · What happens: cry, hold, tell, find · To what, where: sparrow, hand, prince, brothers · 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 (prince, you), 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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cried | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 holding | punct |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sparrow | det |
| 11 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 tell | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | aux |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 find | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tell | advcl |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the prince | now | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the prince not said here | the sparrow | prince's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sparrow=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | shall | you | the prince = prince | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | find in a quote | can | the prince = prince | my brothers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
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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