The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 3
Just to cut hay for the horse, and to clean out his stall!’
What happens: cut, clean out · To what, where: hay, stall
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 cut | mark |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clean | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clean | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 clean | mark |
| 11 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 clean | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stall | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clean | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | to-infinitive | hay | for the horse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hay=Product for horse=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | clean out | to-infinitive | horse's stall | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stall=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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