The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 37
Iwanich longed to possess such an animal, and promised the mare to follow her advice.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: long, possess, promise, follow · To what, where: animal, mare, advice
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 (Iwanich), 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 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 longed | nsubj |
| 2 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 possess | mark |
| 4 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 longed | xcomp |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 animal | det:predet |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possess | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promised | cc |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 longed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mare | det |
| 12 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 promised | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 follow | mark |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | xcomp |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 advice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 follow | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | Iwanich | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | possess not said to happen | to-infinitive | Iwanich not said here | such animal | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot animal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | Iwanich not said here | the mare | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mare=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | Iwanich not said here | Corva's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
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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