The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 21
‘Hardly an hour’s walk from here,’ answered the fox, and offered to show the Prince the way to it.
Who acts: walk, hour · What happens: answer, offer, show, walk · To what, where: fox, Prince
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 (walk, hour), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
| 2 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 6 walk | advmod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 6 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 here | case |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 walk | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 offered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 offered | cc |
| 16 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 answered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 offered | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 show | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a hour's walk | the fox | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | offer | participle | a hour's walk not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | a hour's walk not said here | the Prince | fox | the way obl:unmarked | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Topic to it=Recipient | ||
| 4 | walk | a hour | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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 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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