The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 12
The Prince lifted her on to his horse, and soon they reached the hut, where the old woman got down, and turning to the Prince said, ‘Just wait a moment, and I will give you something.’
Who acts: Prince, eggs, old woman, turning, I · What happens: lift on, reach, get down, turn, say, wait · To what, where: woman, horse, hut, something, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, eggs, old woman, turning), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 lifted | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 reached | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hut | det |
| 15 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 got | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hut | acl |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 25 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 said | csubj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Prince | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 turning | obl |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wait | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 wait | punct |
| 32 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 33 wait | advmod |
| 33 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 moment | det |
| 35 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wait | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 give | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 give | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 give | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 give | aux |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 wait | conj |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 give | iobj |
| 42 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 give | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 wait | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift on | past | the Prince | woman | Prince's horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to horse=Destination | |||
| 2 | reach | past | eggs = egg | the hut | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | |||
| 3 | get down | past | the old woman | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | to the Prince result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prince=Result | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | turning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | wait | infinitive | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | give | future | I | something | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=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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