The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 48
The Prince undertook the task and led the mare out to the meadow.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: undertake, lead out · To what, where: task, mare, meadow
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), 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 undertook | nsubj |
| 3 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 task | det |
| 5 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 undertook | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 led | cc |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 undertook | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mare | det |
| 9 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 led | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 meadow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meadow | det |
| 13 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 undertook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | past | the Prince | the task | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lead out | past | the Prince not said here | the mare | the meadow | out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=Theme to meadow=Destination |
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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