The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 113
The prince did as he was bid, and the mare and her foal stood before him.
Who acts: prince, mare · What happens: do, bid, stand · To what, where: prince
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 (prince, mare), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bid | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux:pass |
| 7 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mare | det |
| 11 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 foal | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mare | conj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the mare and mare's foal | before prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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