The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 61
So they started; and the horse, who was not a wizard for nothing, told the princess exactly where she was to look for the holy water.
Who acts: thoughts, horse, princess · What happens: start, not be, tell, be · To what, where: wizard, princess · 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 (thoughts, horse, princess), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 started | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wizard | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 wizard | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wizard | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wizard | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wizard | det |
| 13 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horse | appos |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 nothing | case |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 wizard | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 horse | punct |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obj |
| 20 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 21 where | advmod |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 look | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 look | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 look | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 told | ccomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 28 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 water | amod |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 look | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | thoughts = thought | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | the horse | a wizard | for nothing | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the horse | the princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | past | princess | for the holy water; look property | tree rules |
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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