The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 52
“Oh! there is no great art in riding a horse home,” said the King’s son.
Who acts: great art, son · What happens: be, ride, say · To what, where: horse home · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (great art, son), 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 | _ | 10 riding | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 is | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 riding | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 art | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 art | amod |
| 8 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 riding | mark |
| 10 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 home | det |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 home | compound |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 riding | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 riding | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 riding | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no great art | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride in a quote | gerund | a horse home | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the King's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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