The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 62
“That I have, master; it was an amusing horse to ride, but I rode him straight home, and put him in the stable too,” said the Prince.
Who acts: That, side, Prince · What happens: have, be, ride, put, say · To what, where: master, amusing horse, giant, stable · 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 (That, side, Prince), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 horse | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 horse | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ride | mark |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 horse | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 rode | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 rode | nsubj |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rode | obj |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 21 home | advmod |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 rode | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 stable | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stable | det |
| 28 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 put | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Prince | det |
| 34 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 said | nsubj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | That | master | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | side | a amusing horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride in a quote | to-infinitive | That not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ride in a quote | past | the Prince = prince | giant | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | put in a quote | infinitive | That not said here | giant | the stable | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in stable=Destination | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | 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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