The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 3
“Give me the horse that stands in the third stall of your stable,” answered the youth.
Who acts: horse, youth · What happens: give, stand, answer · To what, where: horse, youth, third stall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, youth), 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 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stands | nsubj |
| 7 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 horse | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 stall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stall | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 stall | amod |
| 11 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stable | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stable | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stall | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | the horse | the youth = youth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present | the horse | the third stall of your stable | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | 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 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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