The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 45

He himself is the colt, my mother is the saddle, my two sisters are the stirrups, and I am the bridle.

Who acts: father, mother, two sisters, I · What happens: be · To what, where: colt, saddle, stirrups, bridle

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, mother, two sisters, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 colt	nsubj
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 He	nmod:unmarked
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colt	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 colt	det
5	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saddle	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saddle	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 saddle	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 saddle	det
11	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colt	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stirrups	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sisters	nmod:poss
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sisters	nummod
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stirrups	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stirrups	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stirrups	det
18	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 colt	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bridle	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bridle	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 bridle	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bridle	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bridle	det
24	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colt	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 colt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	father	the colt and the saddle and the stirrups and the bridle	tree rules
2	is a	present	my mother	the saddle	tree rules
3	is a	present	my two sisters	the stirrups	tree rules
4	is a	present	I	the bridle	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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