The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 67
The King’s daughter wished to spare him, and said that she was so young and light of foot that she would willingly walk, but he would not give her leave to do that, and she was forced to seat herself on his back again.
Who acts: daughter, bull · What happens: wish, spare, say, be, walk, not give · To what, where: bull, daughter, that, back, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (daughter, bull), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 spare | mark |
| 7 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wished | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spare | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wished | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 young | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 young | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 young | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 young | advmod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 light | cc |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 young | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 foot | case |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 light | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 walk | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walk | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 walk | aux |
| 24 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 25 walk | advmod |
| 25 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 young | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 give | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 give | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 give | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 give | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 give | advmod |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 give | iobj |
| 33 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 give | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 leave | xcomp |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 do | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 forced | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 forced | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 forced | aux:pass |
| 41 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wished | parataxis |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 seat | mark |
| 43 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 forced | xcomp |
| 44 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 forced | obl |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 back | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 back | nmod:poss |
| 47 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 forced | obl |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 forced | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the King's daughter | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spare not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King's daughter not said here | bull | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | daughter | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | walk | would | daughter | willingly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not give | would | bull | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | leave | infinitive | bull not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | bull not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | force | past · passive | daughter | bull's back | again | daughter obl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||
| 10 | light | foot | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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