The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 28
His father and mother said ‘No,’ and bade him look at his brother’s back, but the youth would not give up his design, and stuck to it, and after a long, long time he got leave to go, and set forth on his way.
Who acts: father, youth, state, long long time · What happens: say, look, not give up, get, leave, go · To what, where: bade, design, long long time, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, youth, state, long long time), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mother | cc |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 7 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 11 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | obj |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 ’s | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ’s | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | advcl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 ’s | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youth | det |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 give | advmod |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 give | compound:prt |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 design | nmod:poss |
| 28 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stuck | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stuck | cc |
| 31 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stuck | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 time | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 time | cc |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 41 time | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 long | punct |
| 40 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stuck | conj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 got | nsubj |
| 43 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 time | acl:relcl |
| 44 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 got | xcomp |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 go | mark |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 leave | xcomp |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 set | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 set | cc |
| 49 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 stuck | conj |
| 50 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 49 set | advmod |
| 51 | on | on | ADP | _ | 53 way | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 way | nmod:poss |
| 53 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 set | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | state's father and mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | present | state's father and mother not said here | bade | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not give up | would | the youth | state's design | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Source | ||||
| 4 | get | past | state | a long long time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | a long long time not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | a long long time not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | set | infinitive | state's father and mother not said here | state's way | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on way=Destination | |||
| 8 | design | state | nom design «act 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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