The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 9
‘My mare and foal,’ replied the Prince, ‘have run away from me, and have hidden themselves in the clouds; if you wish to save my life, restore both animals to me.’
Who acts: mare, you · What happens: reply, run away, hide, wish, save, restore · To what, where: Prince, mare, clouds, life, animals, me
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 (mare, you), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mare | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 foal | cc |
| 5 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mare | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mare | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 run | aux |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 away | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hidden | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hidden | cc |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hidden | aux |
| 21 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 run | conj |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 hidden | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 clouds | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 clouds | det |
| 25 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hidden | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 wish | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 wish | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 wish | nsubj |
| 29 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 save | mark |
| 31 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 wish | xcomp |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 life | nmod:poss |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 save | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 restore | punct |
| 35 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 save | conj |
| 36 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 animals | det |
| 37 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 restore | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 me | case |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 restore | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My mare and foal | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run away | present · perfect | My mare and foal not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | present · perfect | My mare and foal not said here | mare | the clouds | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in cloud=Location | |||
| 4 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 6 | restore | infinitive | you not said here | both animals | me | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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