The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 90

As she did so the hill-man lost his power over Hans--for of course you understand that it was he who had been the dog, the cow, the horse and the dove.

Who acts: princess, hill man, you, power · What happens: do, lose, understand, be · To what, where: power, Hans, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, hill man, you, power), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 did	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	9 lost	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hill	punct
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	nsubj
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 Hans	case
13	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 course	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 for	fixed
17	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 understand	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 understand	nsubj
19	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 dog	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dog	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dog	cop
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dog	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 dog	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dog	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 dog	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 understand	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cow	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cow	det
31	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dog	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 horse	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 horse	det
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cow	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 dove	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dove	det
37	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cow	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	princess				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	past	the hill man	man's power	Hans		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
3	understand	present	you			for course	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past · perfect	power	the dog and the cow and the horse and the dove			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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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