The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 103
When the time came for the fair the youth turned himself into a light-coloured horse, and bade his father go to the market with him.
Who acts: time, youth, bade · What happens: come, turn, go · To what, where: youth, market
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, youth, bade), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fair | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fair | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 turned | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coloured | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 light | punct |
| 16 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 20 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | nsubj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | nsubj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turned | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 market | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 market | det |
| 26 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | for the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the youth | youth | into a coloured horse result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into horse=Result | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | bade | the market | with Farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location |
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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