The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 80
The Prince begged for a foal of the mare, which the Mother Dragon at once gave him, and over and above, a cloak made of gold, for she had fallen in love with him because he had praised her beauty.
Who acts: Prince, mare · What happens: beg, give, make, fall, praise · To what, where: cloak, Prince, love
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 foal | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 foal | det |
| 6 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mare | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mare | det |
| 9 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foal | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dragon | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Dragon | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dragon | det |
| 13 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dragon | compound |
| 14 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mare | appos |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 gave | mark |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 gave | advmod |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begged | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 over | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 over | cc |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 gave | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 above | cc |
| 23 | above | above | ADV | _ | 21 over | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cloak | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cloak | det |
| 26 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obl |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 cloak | acl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 gold | case |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fallen | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 fallen | case |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fallen | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fallen | aux |
| 34 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 begged | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 love | case |
| 36 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fallen | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fallen | obl |
| 39 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 42 praised | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 praised | aux |
| 42 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 fallen | advcl |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 44 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 praised | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Prince | a cloak | for a foal of the mare | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for foal=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | past | the Prince not said here | Prince | once, over property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | participle | a cloak not said here | of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | mare | love | with Prince | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | praise | past · perfect · passive | Prince | tree rules |
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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