The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 66
First he chose some stout ropes, and then he led the horse out of the stable and rode it to the hay-stack, which was made up of fifty cartloads, so that it could hardly be called ‘a little one.’
Who acts: prince · What happens: choose, lead, ride, make up, call · To what, where: stout ropes, horse, stable, hay stack · 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 (prince), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 chose | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 ropes | det |
| 5 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ropes | amod |
| 6 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 led | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | nsubj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chose | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 stable | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stable | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stable | det |
| 17 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 led | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rode | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 stack | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stack | det |
| 23 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stack | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 hay | punct |
| 25 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 made | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | aux:pass |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 stack | acl:relcl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 made | compound:prt |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 cartloads | case |
| 32 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 cartloads | nummod |
| 33 | cartloads | cartload | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 made | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 called | punct |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 41 called | advmod |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 so | fixed |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 called | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 called | aux |
| 39 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 41 called | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 called | aux:pass |
| 41 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rode | parataxis |
| 42 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 one | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 one | det |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 one | amod |
| 45 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 called | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | prince | some stout ropes | first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past | prince | the horse | the stable | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme out stable=Destination | ||
| 3 | ride | past | prince not said here | stable | the hay stack | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to stack=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | make up | past · passive | the hay stack | of fifty cartloads | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | call | could · passive | stable | hardly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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