The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 139
In they went then, and no sooner did the hag see them than she said, ‘So you have come, Prince Ring; you must have seen to my husband and children.’
Who acts: others, hag, you · What happens: go, see, say, come · To what, where: others, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, hag, you), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 sooner | det |
| 8 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 see | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hag | det |
| 11 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 said | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 19 | So | so | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Prince | punct |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 25 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Prince | flat |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 seen | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 seen | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 seen | aux |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 husband | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 husband | nmod:poss |
| 33 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seen | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 children | cc |
| 35 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 husband | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | others = other | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · do-support | the hag | others = other | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | hag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | you | Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | must · perfect | you | to my husband and children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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