More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 37
The young Prince dismounts, and puts his horse in the stable, and they go in to have some refreshments, for I can assure you he wanted some; and after telling everything that passed, which the old gentleman was very pleased to hear, they both went for a walk together, the young Prince looking around and seeing the place looking dreadful, as did the old man.
Who acts: young Prince dismounts, hand, I, Dismount, young Prince, place · What happens: put, go in, have, assure, want, tell · To what, where: horse, stable, refreshments, you, some, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince dismounts, hand, I, Dismount), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dismounts | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dismounts | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dismounts | compound |
| 4 | dismounts | dismount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 puts | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 puts | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 puts | cc |
| 7 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puts | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 stable | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stable | det |
| 12 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puts | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 puts | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | xcomp |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 refreshments | det |
| 21 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 assure | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 assure | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 assure | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 assure | aux |
| 26 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 have | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 assure | iobj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wanted | nsubj |
| 29 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 assure | ccomp |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 wanted | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 went | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 went | cc |
| 33 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 34 telling | mark |
| 34 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 51 went | advcl |
| 35 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 34 telling | obj |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 passed | nsubj |
| 37 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 everything | acl:relcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 pleased | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 pleased | nsubj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 gentleman | det |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 gentleman | amod |
| 42 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 pleased | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 pleased | cop |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 pleased | advmod |
| 45 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 everything | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 hear | mark |
| 47 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 pleased | advcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 telling | punct |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 went | nsubj |
| 50 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 went | advmod |
| 51 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 puts | parataxis |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 walk | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 walk | det |
| 54 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 went | obl |
| 55 | together | together | ADV | _ | 51 went | advmod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 looking | punct |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 Prince | det |
| 58 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 Prince | amod |
| 59 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 looking | nsubj |
| 60 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 51 went | advcl |
| 61 | around | around | ADV | _ | 60 looking | advmod |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 seeing | cc |
| 63 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 60 looking | conj |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 place | det |
| 65 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 seeing | obj |
| 66 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 65 place | acl |
| 67 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 looking | xcomp |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 did | punct |
| 69 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 70 did | mark |
| 70 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 looking | conj |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 man | det |
| 72 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 man | amod |
| 73 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 did | obj |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 puts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | the young Prince dismounts | Dismount's horse | the stable | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in stable=Destination | |||
| 2 | go in | present | hand | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | hand not said here | some refreshments | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refreshment=Patient | ||||
| 4 | assure | can | I | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | want | past | Dismount | some | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot some=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | gerund | hand not said here | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | pass | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | hear | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 10 | go | past | hand | for a walk; together property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for walk=Beneficiary | ||||
| 11 | look around | gerund | the young Prince | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 12 | see | gerund | the young Prince not said here | the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | ||||
| 13 | look | gerund | the place not said here | dreadful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 14 | do | past | the young Prince not said here | the old man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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