The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 67

The prince did all that the maiden had told him, and when at last he was seated on top of the rick, and had counted up to twenty, he heard the horse ask in amazement: ‘What are you counting up there, my son?’

Who acts: prince, you · What happens: do, tell, seat, count up, hear, ask · To what, where: maiden, prince, top, horse, amazement · 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, you), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 told	det:predet
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 when	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 when	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 did	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 when	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seated	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seated	aux:pass
18	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 last	acl:relcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 top	case
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 rick	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rick	det
23	rick	rick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 top	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 counted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 counted	cc
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 counted	aux
27	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 did	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 counted	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 twenty	case
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 counted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 ask	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 horse	det
35	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obj
36	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 amazement	case
38	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ask	obl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 counting	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 counting	punct
41	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 counting	obj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 counting	cop
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 counting	nsubj
44	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 ask	advcl
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 counting	compound:prt
46	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 counting	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 son	punct
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 son	nmod:poss
49	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 counting	obl
50	?	?	PUNCT	_	44 counting	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	44 counting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the maiden	prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
3	seat	past · passive		prince		top of the rick		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
4	count up	past · perfect	the prince not said here				to twenty	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to twenty=Experiencer
5	hear	past	prince	the horse				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
6	ask speech: ask	present				amazement		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	you			there	my son obl; count property	tree rules

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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