The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 34
The prince and his bride walked over the bridge, but the servant said he would ride the horses through the stream so as to water and bathe them.
Who acts: prince, servant · What happens: walk, say, ride, bathe · To what, where: bridge, horses, stream, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, servant), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bride | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bride | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 bridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 servant | det |
| 13 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ride | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 ride | aux |
| 17 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horses | det |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ride | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 stream | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stream | det |
| 22 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ride | obl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 ride | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 water | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ride | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bathe | cc |
| 28 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ride | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bathe | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the prince and servant's bride | the bridge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ride | would | servant | the horses | the stream | as water | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme through stream=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | bathe | infinitive | servant not said here | prince | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |
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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