The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 76
Meanwhile the Prince went against the other with fear and trembling, and by the time Snati came to help him the ox had nearly got him under, but Snati was not slow in helping his master to kill it.
Who acts: Prince, Snati, ox, master · What happens: go, come, help, get, not be, kill · To what, where: Snati, master
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 (Prince, Snati, ox, master), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 other | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trembling | cc |
| 11 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fear | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 17 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ox | det |
| 23 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 got | aux |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 help | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | obj |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 got | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slow | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 slow | cc |
| 31 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 slow | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 slow | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 slow | advmod |
| 34 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 came | conj |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 helping | mark |
| 36 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 slow | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 master | nmod:poss |
| 38 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 helping | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 kill | mark |
| 40 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 helping | xcomp |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Prince | against the other; with fear and trembling; meanwhile property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with fear=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Snati | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | Snati not said here | Snati | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | the ox | Snati | nearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not is | past | Snati | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help | gerund | Snati not said here | Snati's master | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent master=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | kill | to-infinitive | Snati's master not said here | master | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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