The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 62
The horse will ask you what you are counting, and you must be sure to answer what I whisper to you.’
Who acts: horse, you, I · What happens: ask, count, be, answer, whisper · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (horse, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 counting | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 counting | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 counting | aux |
| 9 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sure | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ask | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 answer | mark |
| 17 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | xcomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 answer | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 whisper | nsubj |
| 20 | whisper | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 whisper | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | the horse | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | count | present · progressive | you | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | must | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | whisper speech: assert | present | I | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
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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