The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 75
When you return, see that all your three horses remain on the road, while you walk.
Who acts: you, three horses · What happens: return, see, remain, walk · To what, where: road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, three horses), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 return | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 return | nsubj |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 remain | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 horses | det:predet |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horses | nmod:poss |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | nummod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remain | nsubj |
| 11 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remain | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walk | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 walk | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 walk | nsubj |
| 18 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 remain | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | remain | present | your three horses | the road | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 4 | walk | present | you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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