The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 77
Towards evening the mare was returned to him, and when he led her home to the Mother Dragon she said to him:
Who acts: King, mare · What happens: return, lead, say · To what, where: mare, King, home, Mother Dragon · 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 (King, mare), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mare | det |
| 4 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | aux:pass |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 led | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 led | nsubj |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Dragon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Dragon | det |
| 18 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Dragon | compound |
| 19 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · passive | the mare | King | evening | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 2 | lead | past | King | mare's home | the Mother Dragon | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to dragon=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | mare | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=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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