The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 97

When they were close to the cottage where they lived he laid the child in a pail that was standing near the door, and ran into the house, crying: “Come quickly, wife, quickly, for I have brought you a daughter, with hair of gold and eyes like stars!”

Who acts: men, hermit, pail, I · What happens: be, live, lay, stand, run, cry · To what, where: child, pail, door, house, wife, daughter · 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 (men, hermit, pail, I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 close	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 close	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 close	cop
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ran	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cottage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cottage	det
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 lived	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cottage	acl:relcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laid	nsubj
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lived	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pail	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pail	det
17	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 child	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 standing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 standing	aux
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pail	acl:relcl
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 standing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crying	punct
31	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ran	advcl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Come	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 Come	punct
34	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ran	conj
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	34 Come	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wife	punct
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Come	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 quickly	punct
39	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	34 Come	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 brought	punct
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 brought	mark
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 brought	nsubj
43	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 brought	aux
44	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 Come	parataxis
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 brought	obj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 daughter	det
47	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 brought	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 hair	punct
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 hair	case
50	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 brought	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 gold	case
52	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hair	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 eyes	cc
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 hair	conj
55	like	like	ADP	_	56 stars	case
56	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 eyes	nmod
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 brought	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	men = man				to the cottage; close property	tree rules
2	live	past	men = man					tree rules
3	lay	past	hermit	the child		a pail		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme in pail=Destination
4	stand	past · progressive	a pail			the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near door=Location
5	run	past					into the house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result
6	cry speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	come in a quote	infinitive		wife			quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bring in a quote	present · perfect	I	a daughter	you		with hair of gold and eyes like stars	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination daughter=Theme

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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