The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 34
But the youth again went down to the stable to Dapplegrim, and told him that the Princess had hidden herself again, and that he had not the least idea what had become of her.
Who acts: youth · What happens: go down, tell, hide, become · To what, where: Dapplegrim, Princess · 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 (youth), 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 | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stable | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stable | det |
| 9 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Dapplegrim | case |
| 11 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 hidden | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hidden | aux |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 told | ccomp |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 hidden | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 hidden | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 become | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 become | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 become | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 idea | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 idea | det |
| 30 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 idea | amod |
| 31 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 become | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 become | aux |
| 34 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 went | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 become | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the youth | Dapplegrim | again | to the stable; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the youth not said here | Dapplegrim | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the Princess | again | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | of Princess | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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