The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 36
As they now went on together the prince said that he could not forget the beautiful princess, and asked the fox whether he did not think that she ought to ride home to his father’s palace on this horse with the golden shoes.
Who acts: arms, prince, princess · What happens: go, say, not forget, ask, not think, ride · To what, where: beautiful princess, fox, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, prince, princess), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 together | case |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 forget | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forget | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 forget | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 forget | advmod |
| 14 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princess | amod |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forget | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fox | det |
| 22 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | obj |
| 23 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 27 think | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 think | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 think | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 think | advmod |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asked | xcomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 ride | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ride | nsubj |
| 30 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 ride | aux |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 ride | mark |
| 32 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 think | ccomp |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 ride | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 palace | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 palace | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 father | case |
| 38 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ride | obl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 horse | case |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 horse | det |
| 41 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ride | obl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 shoes | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 shoes | det |
| 44 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 shoes | amod |
| 45 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ride | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | arms = arm | now | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on together=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not forget | could | prince | the beautiful princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince not said here | the fox | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not think speech: other not said to happen | past · do-support | prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ride | ought | princess | prince's father's palace | on this horse; with the golden shoes; home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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