The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 101

But the horse guessed this new danger and told the princess how to escape it.

Who acts: horse · What happens: guess, tell, escape · To what, where: new danger, princess, danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (horse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 guessed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guessed	nsubj
4	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 danger	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 danger	amod
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guessed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guessed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 escape	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 escape	mark
14	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 escape	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	guess	past	the horse	this new danger		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the horse not said here		the princess	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
3	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive		danger		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Initial_Location

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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