The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 50
But she jumped off and said that there was no need for that, for the horse was so well broken in that it stood still when she bade it and came when she called it.
Who acts: daughter, need · What happens: jump off, say, be, break, stand, bade · To what, where: need, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (daughter, need), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 jumped | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 was | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 need | det |
| 11 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 need | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 broken | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 broken | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 broken | aux:pass |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 well | advmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 broken | advmod |
| 21 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 stood | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 stood | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 broken | advcl |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 stood | advmod |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 bade | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bade | nsubj |
| 29 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stood | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bade | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 came | cc |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stood | conj |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 called | advmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 called | nsubj |
| 35 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | advcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 called | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump off | past | daughter | no need | for that | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme need=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | daughter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | past | daughter not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | past · passive | the horse | well property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | need | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | bade | past | daughter | need | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | past | need not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | call | past | daughter | need | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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