The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 16

‘Can you tell me which is the horse I have caught, and which is the one I had before?’ said the youth.

Who acts: you, horse, I · What happens: tell, be, catch, have, say · To what, where: me, horse, I, one, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horse, 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 tell	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 horse	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 horse	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	ccomp
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 caught	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 caught	aux
12	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 horse	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 one	cc
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 one	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 one	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 one	acl:relcl
21	before	before	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youth	det
26	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	present		the horse			tree rules
3	catch	present · perfect · passive	the horse not said here	I			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	present		the one			tree rules
5	have	past	I	the one not said here		before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past		the youth			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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