The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 19

When the Prince awoke and found the horses gone he determined to appeal to the fox; so, lighting a fire, he threw the two hairs into it, and in a few moments the fox stood beside him and asked: ‘In what way can I serve you?’

Who acts: Prince, horses, fox, I · What happens: awake, find, go, determine, appeal, light · To what, where: fire, two hairs, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, horses, fox, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 awoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 awoke	nsubj
4	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 threw	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awoke	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horses	det
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	nsubj
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 found	ccomp
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 determined	nsubj
11	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 appeal	mark
13	appeal	appeal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 determined	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 fox	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fox	det
16	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appeal	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lighting	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 lighting	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lighting	punct
20	lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 awoke	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lighting	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 awoke	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	nsubj
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hairs	det
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hairs	nummod
28	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 threw	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stood	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stood	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 moments	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 moments	det
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 moments	amod
36	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 stood	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fox	det
38	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stood	nsubj
39	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 threw	conj
40	beside	beside	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stood	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 asked	cc
43	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 stood	conj
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 serve	punct
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	51 serve	punct
46	In	in	ADP	_	47 what	case
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 serve	obl
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 serve	obl:unmarked
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 serve	aux
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 serve	nsubj
51	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 asked	ccomp
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 serve	obj
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	the Prince					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	the Prince not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	participle	the horses					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	determine	past	Prince					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	appeal	to-infinitive	Prince not said here				to the fox	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to fox=Experiencer
6	light	gerund	the Prince not said here	a fire				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
7	throw	past	Prince	the two hairs	fire			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer hair=Theme into it=Result
8	stand	past	the fox			moment	beside Prince	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
9	ask speech: ask	past	the fox not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	serve	can	I	way				vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in what=Location

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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