The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 67
‘No, thank you, there is no need; my horse is so well broken in that it will stand still when I bid it.’
Who acts: need, I · What happens: thank, be, break, stand, bid · To what, where: you, horse, need
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 (need, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 thank | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thank | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 need | det |
| 10 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 broken | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 broken | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 broken | advmod |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thank | conj |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 stand | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stand | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stand | aux |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 broken | advcl |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 stand | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 bid | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 bid | nsubj |
| 26 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bid | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | no need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | present · passive | my horse | well property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand | future | need | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bid | past | I | need | tree rules |
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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