The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 50
Before he went he said to his wife, ‘Now mind you do not say when you see me that I am the Crab.
Who acts: prince, you, I · What happens: go, say, mind, not say, see, be · To what, where: me, Crab · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). 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, 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wife | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 mind | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 mind | advmod |
| 12 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 say | advmod |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 mind | ccomp |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 see | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 Crab | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Crab | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Crab | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Crab | det |
| 25 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | to prince's wife | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mind | infinitive | now | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | see | present | you | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | I | the Crab | tree rules |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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