The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 119
You have chosen the right horse, for without his help you would have returned with a bent head and downcast eyes.
Who acts: You, father · What happens: choose, return, help · To what, where: right horse
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 (You, father), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | aux |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chosen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 help | case |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 help | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 help | nmod:poss |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 returned | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 returned | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 returned | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 returned | aux |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 chosen | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 18 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 returned | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 eyes | cc |
| 21 | downcast | downcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | compound |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 head | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · perfect | You | the right horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | would · perfect | you | for father's help; with a bent head and downcast eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | father | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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.
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