The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 87
When he heard this the coachman, who understood the cat’s language better than the prince, his master, stopped his horses and asked:
Who acts: Prince, coachman · What happens: hear, understand, stop, ask · To what, where: this, horses
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, coachman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stopped | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coachman | det |
| 6 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 understood | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 understood | nsubj |
| 9 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 coachman | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 language | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 cat | case |
| 13 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 better | nsubj |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 understood | parataxis |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 prince | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 better | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 master | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prince | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stopped | punct |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stopped | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 asked | cc |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stopped | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Prince | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | the coachman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | Prince's horses | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality horse=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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