The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 149
And both crows bowed and asked for a permanent appointment, for they thought of their old age.
Who acts: crows, prince · What happens: bow, ask, think
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink 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 (crows, prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bowed | cc |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 crows | det |
| 3 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 appointment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 appointment | det |
| 9 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 appointment | amod |
| 10 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 age | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 age | nmod:poss |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 age | amod |
| 18 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | both crows | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | both crows not said here | for a permanent appointment | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | prince | of prince's old age | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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