The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 110
‘The old woman’s mare strayed last night, and I don’t know where to look for her.’
Who acts: mare, I · What happens: stray, not know, look · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mare, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 strayed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mare | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 woman | case |
| 6 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strayed | nsubj |
| 7 | strayed | stray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 night | amod |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strayed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 strayed | conj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 look | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strayed | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 strayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stray | past | the old woman's mare | night | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | for mare | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme |
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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