The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 47
By this time the emperor, on hearing where she was, joined her in the yard, and at her request ordered the mares to be milked, so that both he and she might bathe in the milk and keep young for ever.
Who acts: princess, emperor · What happens: hear, be, order, milk, bathe, keep · To what, where: mares, request · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, emperor), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hearing | punct |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 hearing | mark |
| 8 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 emperor | appos |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 joined | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 joined | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 joined | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 joined | punct |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hearing | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 joined | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 yard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 yard | det |
| 17 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ordered | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 request | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 request | nmod:poss |
| 22 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ordered | obl |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 joined | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mares | det |
| 25 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ordered | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 milked | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 milked | aux:pass |
| 28 | milked | milk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mares | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bathe | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 bathe | advmod |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 bathe | mark |
| 32 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 he | reparandum |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bathe | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bathe | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bathe | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 bathe | aux |
| 37 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hearing | parataxis |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 milk | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 milk | det |
| 40 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bathe | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 keep | cc |
| 42 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 bathe | conj |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 keep | xcomp |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 ever | case |
| 45 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 young | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | princess | in the yard; join property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the mares | princess's request | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mare=Theme at request=Asset | ||||
| 4 | milk | to-infinitive · passive | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 5 | bathe | might | emperor | in the milk | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in milk=Theme | ||||
| 6 | keep | present | emperor not said here | young property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | request | princess | nom request «communication 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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