The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 48
Now he thought he would saddle it for his homeward journey, and he turned down the path which led to the stable.
Who acts: merchant, path · What happens: think, saddle, turn down, lead, journey · To what, where: castle, path · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, path), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saddle | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 saddle | aux |
| 6 | saddle | saddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saddle | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | compound |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saddle | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 turned | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 path | det |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 path | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 stable | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stable | det |
| 23 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | merchant | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | saddle | would | merchant | castle | for merchant's homeward journey | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | |||
| 3 | turn down | past | merchant | the path | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | the path | to the stable | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to stable=Patient | ||||
| 5 | journey | merchant | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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