The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 5

The white horse, who is our master’s grandmother, is always hungry: it takes twenty men always mowing to keep it in food for one day, and another twenty to clean out its stall.

Who acts: white horse, it, twenty · What happens: be, take, mow, keep, clean out · To what, where: grandmother, twenty men, master, food, 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: who acts (white horse, it, twenty), 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	3 horse	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hungry	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grandmother	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 grandmother	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grandmother	cop
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grandmother	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 master	case
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horse	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 horse	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hungry	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 hungry	advmod
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 takes	nsubj
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hungry	parataxis
18	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 men	nummod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 takes	obj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 mowing	advmod
21	mowing	mow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 takes	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mowing	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 food	case
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 day	nummod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 clean	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 clean	cc
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 twenty	det
33	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 clean	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 clean	mark
35	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 takes	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 clean	compound:prt
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 stall	nmod:poss
38	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 clean	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the white horse	our master's grandmother					tree rules
2	is	present	the white horse					always, hungry property	tree rules
3	take	present	it		twenty men				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
4	mow	gerund						always property	tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive		master		food	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in food=Location
6	clean out	to-infinitive	another twenty	food'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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