The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 74
But on the way back the coachman and footman spoke to one another and said:
Who acts: coachman · What happens: speak, say · To what, where: one, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoke | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | obl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 way | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coachman | det |
| 7 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 footman | cc |
| 9 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coachman | conj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 spoke | obl |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | fixed |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the coachman and footman | one | the way | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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