The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 88
The Prince replied: ‘I had to look after a mare and foal, and they have run away from me and have hidden themselves in the river; if you wish to save my life drive them back to the land.’
Who acts: Prince, I, mare, you · What happens: reply, have, look, run away, hide, wish · To what, where: mare, river, life, land
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I, mare, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 mare | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mare | det |
| 12 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 foal | cc |
| 14 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mare | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 run | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 run | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 run | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 run | aux |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 replied | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 run | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hidden | cc |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hidden | aux |
| 25 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 run | conj |
| 26 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 hidden | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 river | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hidden | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 wish | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 wish | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 wish | nsubj |
| 33 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 save | mark |
| 35 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 wish | xcomp |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 save | obj |
| 38 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 save | xcomp |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 drive | obj |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 drive | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 land | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 land | det |
| 43 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drive | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | after a mare and foal | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | run away | present · perfect | mare | from me; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from i=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | hide | present · perfect | mare not said here | mare | the river | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in river=Location | |||
| 6 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | my life | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | drive back | infinitive | you not said here | mare | the land | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to land=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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