The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 106
‘Yes, forwards,’ answered the horse; ‘but you must tell me, my lord, at what speed you wish to go.
Who acts: forwards, you · What happens: answer, tell, wish, go · To what, where: horse, lord, me, speed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forwards, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 forwards | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 forwards | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | forwards | forward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forwards | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 forwards | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lord | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lord | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 what | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 23 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wish | obl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 wish | nsubj |
| 25 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wish | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | forwards | the horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | must | you | my lord | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | wish | present | you | speed | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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