The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 5
In eight days you must manage to tame and bring to me three horses that have never felt a master.
Who acts: you · What happens: manage, tame, bring, not feel · To what, where: three horses, me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 manage | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 manage | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 manage | aux |
| 6 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tame | mark |
| 8 | tame | tame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 manage | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bring | cc |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 manage | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obl |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 horses | nummod |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bring | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 felt | advmod |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 horses | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 master | det |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | must | you | day | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tame | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | three horses | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 4 | not feel | present · perfect · passive | three horses | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme master=Eventuality |
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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