The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 19

You can imagine how fast he traveled when I tell you that they reached the King’s palace in just half the time it had taken the wooden horse to get there.

Who acts: You, goodness, I, Prince, time · What happens: imagine, travel, tell, reach, take, get · To what, where: you, palace, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, goodness, I, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 traveled	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 traveled	nsubj
7	traveled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	advcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 tell	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 traveled	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 reached	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reached	nsubj
14	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 palace	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 King	case
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 time	case
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 half	advmod
21	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	23 time	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taken	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taken	aux
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 time	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horse	det
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 horse	amod
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 horse	acl
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 get	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	can	You						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	travel	past	goodness					fast property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	reach	past	Prince	the King's palace			time		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
5	take	past · perfect · passive	half time not said here	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme horse=Destination
6	get	to-infinitive	half time not said here			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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