The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 33

While he was riding over the heath in the highest of spirits the mare suddenly said to her rider: ‘You are the first person who has ever succeeded in outwitting the old witch Corva, and now you may ask what reward you like for your service.

Who acts: Prince, mare, You, your · What happens: ride, say, be, succeed, outwit, ask · To what, where: heath, highest spirits, rider, first person, old witch · 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, mare, You, your), 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 riding	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 riding	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 riding	aux
4	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 heath	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heath	det
7	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 riding	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 spirits	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spirits	det
10	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 spirits	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 spirits	case
12	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 riding	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mare	det
14	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spirits	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 rider	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 rider	nmod:poss
19	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 riding	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 person	punct
22	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 person	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 person	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 person	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 person	amod
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 riding	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 succeeded	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 succeeded	aux
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 succeeded	advmod
30	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 person	acl:relcl
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	32 outwitting	mark
32	outwitting	outwit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 succeeded	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 witch	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 witch	amod
35	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 outwitting	obj
36	Corva	Corva	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 witch	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ask	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ask	cc
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 ask	advmod
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 ask	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 ask	aux
42	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 person	parataxis
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 reward	nsubj
44	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 ask	ccomp
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 like	nsubj
46	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 reward	ccomp
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 service	case
48	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 service	nmod:poss
49	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 like	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 person	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · progressive	Prince			the heath		in the highest spirits	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over heath=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past	the mare	the highest spirits not said here	misfortune's rider			suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Topic to rider=Recipient
3	is a	present	You	the first person					tree rules
4	succeed	present · perfect · passive		the first person			ever		tree rules
5	outwit	gerund		the old witch					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot witch=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	may	you				now		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	reward	present							tree rules
8	like	present	you					for your service	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for service=Attribute
9	service		your						nom service «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/33/