The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 101

‘Look! all those men took service with me, on the same conditions as you, but not one was able to guard the mare!’

Who acts: men, one · What happens: look, take, be, guard · To what, where: service, same conditions, mare

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, one), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 took	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 men	det:predet
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 conditions	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 conditions	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 conditions	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 conditions	amod
15	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 conditions	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 able	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 able	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 took	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 guard	mark
25	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mare	det
27	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guard	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive	all men not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	take	past	all men	service		the same conditions as you	with me	tree rules
3	is	past	one				able property	tree rules
4	guard	to-infinitive	one not said here		the mare			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Beneficiary

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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