The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 100
No sooner had the seven princes come out into the churchyard than they became foals again, and Cinderlad got upon the back of the youngest, and they returned by the way they had come, only they went much, much faster.
Who acts: seven princes, princes, Cinderlad · What happens: have, come out, become, get, return, come · To what, where: churchyard, foals, way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven princes, princes, Cinderlad), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princes | det |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 princes | nummod |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 churchyard | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 churchyard | det |
| 11 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 became | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | advcl |
| 15 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 became | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 19 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 youngest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 back | det |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 youngest | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 youngest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 youngest | det |
| 26 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 got | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 returned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 returned | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 returned | nsubj |
| 30 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 way | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 returned | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 come | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 come | aux |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 way | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 went | punct |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 went | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 went | nsubj |
| 40 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 41 | much | much | ADV | _ | 40 went | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 faster | punct |
| 43 | much | much | ADV | _ | 44 faster | advmod |
| 44 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 went | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come out | present | the seven princes | the churchyard | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | become | past | princes = prince | foals | again | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | get | past | Cinderlad | upon the youngest | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | return | past | princes = prince | by the way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past · perfect | princes = prince | the way not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | past | princes = prince | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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