The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 50
“I have only to go up the mountain-side after his horse.”
Who acts: dangerous work · What happens: have, go up · To what, where: mountain side
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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 (dangerous work), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 go | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 mountain | punct |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | dangerous work and fancy = work | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go up in a quote | to-infinitive | dangerous work and fancy = work not said here | the mountain side | after Prince's horse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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