The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 117
‘I did go among the fishes,’ replied the mare; ‘but they are no friends of mine, for they betrayed me at once.’
Who acts: I, foal · What happens: go, reply, be, betray · To what, where: mare, friends, me
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 (I, foal), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 fishes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fishes | det |
| 7 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mare | det |
| 12 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 friends | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 friends | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 friends | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 friends | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 friends | det |
| 19 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mine | case |
| 21 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friends | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 betrayed | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 betrayed | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 betrayed | nsubj |
| 25 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 betrayed | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 betrayed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | I | among the fishes | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among fish=Location | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the mare | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mare=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | foal | no friends | of mine | tree rules | |||
| 4 | betray | past | foal | me | tree rules |
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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