The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 9
Then the Prince said to her, ‘You can hardly walk; I will put you on my horse and lead you home.
Who acts: Prince, You, I · What happens: say, walk, put, lead · To what, where: woman, 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, You, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walk | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 12 walk | mark |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 walk | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 walk | aux |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 12 walk | advmod |
| 12 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 walk | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lead | cc |
| 22 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 lead | obj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 lead | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | woman | then | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | walk | can | You | hardly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | future | I | you | on my horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 4 | lead | present | I not said here | you | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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