The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 115
The old woman was at the door to receive them, and gave the prince some food while she led the mare back to the stable.
Who acts: old woman, door, woman · What happens: be, receive, give, lead · To what, where: door, foal, food, prince, 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 (old woman, door, woman), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 door | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 receive | mark |
| 9 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 door | acl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 receive | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 door | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 food | det |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 led | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mare | det |
| 22 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 led | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 stable | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stable | det |
| 26 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 door | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old woman | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | foal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the door not said here | some food | the prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient food=Theme | |||
| 4 | lead | past | woman | the mare | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=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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