The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 116
‘However, there are twelve mares upon the hills which we have not yet divided among us, and if you would like to have them for your share, you may take them.’
Who acts: twelve mares, we, you, your · What happens: be, not divide, like, have, take, share · To what, where: hills, mares
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (twelve mares, we, you, your), 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 | _ | 5 are | punct |
| 2 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 are | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 However | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 are | expl |
| 5 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | advcl |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 mares | nummod |
| 7 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 are | nsubj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 hills | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hills | det |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mares | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 divided | obj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 divided | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 divided | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 divided | advmod |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 divided | advmod |
| 16 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 hills | acl:relcl |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 divided | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 like | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 like | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 like | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | aux |
| 24 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 like | xcomp |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 have | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 share | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 share | nmod:poss |
| 30 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 take | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 take | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 take | aux |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 like | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 take | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | twelve mares upon the hills | there | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not divide | present · perfect | we | the hills | yet | among us | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||
| 3 | like | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | mares = mare | for your share | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 5 | take | may | you | mares = mare | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | share | your | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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 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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