The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 54
In the second place, you must have two horses; one you must ride yourself, and the other you must lead, which must be loaded with a sheep cut into four quarters, that must be killed to-day.
Who acts: you, one, other · What happens: have, ride, lead, load, cut, kill · To what, where: two horses, second place, yourself, sheep, four quarters
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, other), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 place | amod |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 place | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | nummod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ride | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 ride | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 ride | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ride | aux |
| 15 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | parataxis |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 ride | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lead | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lead | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lead | nsubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 lead | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 lead | aux |
| 23 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ride | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 loaded | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 loaded | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 loaded | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 loaded | aux:pass |
| 28 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 lead | advcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 sheep | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sheep | det |
| 31 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loaded | obl |
| 32 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sheep | acl |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 quarters | case |
| 34 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 quarters | nummod |
| 35 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 cut | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 killed | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 killed | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 killed | aux:pass |
| 40 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 quarters | acl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 day | case |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 to | punct |
| 43 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 killed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | you | two horses | the second place | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride | must | one | yourself | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | must | the other | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | load | must · passive | with a sheep | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sheep=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cut | participle | a sheep not said here | into four quarters | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into quarter=Patient | ||||
| 6 | kill | must · passive | four quarters | day | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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