The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 85
Next day, when the time came for the man to ride into the forest, the queen asked him to stay at home and look after the princes, and she would go to meet the evil spirits in his place.
Who acts: time, queen · What happens: come, ride, ask, stay, look, go · To what, where: forest, man, home, evil spirits, place
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, queen), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ride | mark |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ride | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 queen | det |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 stay | mark |
| 22 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | xcomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stay | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 look | cc |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 stay | conj |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 princes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 princes | det |
| 29 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 look | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 go | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | aux |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 meet | mark |
| 36 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 go | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 spirits | det |
| 38 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 spirits | amod |
| 39 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 meet | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 place | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 place | nmod:poss |
| 42 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spirits | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | day | for the man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | the time not said here | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the queen | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | the queen not said here | after the princes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | go | would | queen | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | meet | to-infinitive | queen not said here | the evil spirits | man's place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Co-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 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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