The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 22
While they were walking along the fox asked him what he wanted to do at the royal hen-house.
Who acts: horses, Prince · What happens: walk, ask, want, do · To what, where: Prince, royal hen house · 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 (horses, Prince), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 walking | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | aux |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 fox | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 wanted | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wanted | nsubj |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 18 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hen | punct |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | horses = horse | along the fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along fox=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the royal hen house | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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