The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 21

When she wished to get on her horse Falada again, the waiting-maid called out: “I mean to ride Falada: you must mount my beast”; and this too she had to submit to.

Who acts: Princess, you, this · What happens: wish, get, call out, mean, ride, mount · To what, where: waiting maid, Falada, beast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, you, this), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wished	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wished	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
9	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 horse	appos
10	again	again	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 maid	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maid	det
13	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 maid	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
15	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 maid	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 called	compound:prt
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 mean	nsubj
21	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ride	mark
23	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mean	xcomp
24	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ride	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 mount	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 mount	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 mount	aux
28	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wished	parataxis
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 beast	nmod:poss
30	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mount	obj
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 mount	punct
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 had	nsubj
35	too	too	ADV	_	37 had	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 submit	mark
39	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	39 submit	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Princess				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	the waiting maid	again	on Princess's horse	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on horse=Source
3	call out speech: assert	participle		the waiting maid not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean in a quote	present	Princess				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	ride not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Falada			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falada=Theme
6	mount in a quote	must	you	my beast			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient
7	have	past	this				tree rules
8	submit	to-infinitive	this not said here				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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