The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 67
‘Take breath,’ said the horse, ‘for you have no time to lose.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, say, have, lose · To what, where: breath, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lose | mark |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | breath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the horse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | you | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/20/67/