The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 51
Go to the stable and saddle the leanest horse you can find there.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, saddle, find · To what, where: stable, leanest horse
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 (you), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 stable | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stable | det |
| 4 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saddle | cc |
| 6 | saddle | saddle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | leanest | lean | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saddle | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 horse | acl:relcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 find | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | saddle | infinitive | you not said here | the leanest horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | can | you | the leanest horse not said here | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
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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