The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 36
The old stableman was very jealous, when he heard of it, and wondered what he could do to injure the youth in the eyes of his royal master.
Who acts: old stableman, horse · What happens: be, hear, wonder, do, injure · To what, where: youth, eyes · 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 (old stableman, horse), 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 | 3 stableman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stableman | amod |
| 3 | stableman | stableman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jealous | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jealous | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 jealous | advmod |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jealous | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wondered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wondered | cc |
| 15 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wondered | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 injure | mark |
| 21 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 youth | det |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 injure | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eyes | det |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 injure | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 master | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 master | nmod:poss |
| 29 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 master | amod |
| 30 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eyes | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old stableman | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | horse | of stableman | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | horse not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | could | horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | injure | to-infinitive | horse not said here | the youth | the eyes of horse's royal master | 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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