The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 69
“Get me some money out of the chest, for I am going a long journey—all through the world—to see if I cannot find a child, for my heart aches to think that after I am dead my house will fall into the hands of a stranger.
Who acts: you, heart, dead house · What happens: get, go, see, not find, ache, think · To what, where: money, heart, chest, long journey, world, child · 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 (you, heart, dead house), 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 | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Get | obj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Get | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 chest | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chest | det |
| 9 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Get | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 journey | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 journey | amod |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 world | punct |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 world | advmod |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Get | conj |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 find | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 find | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 find | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 find | advmod |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | ccomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 child | det |
| 32 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 aches | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 aches | mark |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 heart | nmod:poss |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 aches | nsubj |
| 37 | aches | ache | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 find | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 think | mark |
| 39 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 aches | xcomp |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 fall | mark |
| 41 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 dead | case |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 dead | nsubj |
| 43 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 dead | cop |
| 44 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 house | amod |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 house | nmod:poss |
| 46 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 fall | nsubj |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 fall | aux |
| 48 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 think | ccomp |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 hands | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 hands | det |
| 51 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 fall | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 stranger | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 stranger | det |
| 54 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 hands | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | imperative | you not said here | some money | my heart = heart | the chest | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary money=Theme | ||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | my heart = heart | a long journey | the world | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | my heart = heart | a child | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 5 | ache in a quote | present | my heart | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | my heart not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | my heart = heart | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fall in a quote | future | my dead house | into the hands of a stranger result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result |
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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