The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 61
“Have you fetched the horse back from the mountain-side?” he asked.
Who acts: you, giant · What happens: fetch back, ask · To what, where: horse, mountain side · 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 (you, giant), 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 | _ | 4 fetched | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fetched | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fetched | nsubj |
| 4 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 fetched | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mountain | punct |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fetched | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fetched | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch back in a quote | present | you | the horse | the mountain side | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from side=Source | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | giant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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