The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 2
The Prince followed her, and heard her scolding the beasts harshly for not having hidden themselves better.
Who acts: Prince, witch · What happens: follow, hear, scold, not have, hide · To what, where: witch, beasts
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, witch), 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 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | scolding | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 heard | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beasts | det |
| 11 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scolding | obj |
| 12 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 9 scolding | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 having | mark |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 having | advmod |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 scolding | advcl |
| 16 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 having | xcomp |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hidden | obj |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 having | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the Prince | witch | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the Prince not said here | witch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scold | gerund | witch not said here | the beasts | harshly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | |||
| 4 | not have | gerund | witch not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hide | participle | witch not said here | beasts = beast | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
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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