The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 118
‘Well, go among the foxes this time,’ said she, and returned to the house, not knowing that the prince had overheard her.
Who acts: mare · What happens: go, say, return, not know, overhear · To what, where: prince · 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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 foxes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 foxes | det |
| 7 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 returned | cc |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knowing | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 knowing | advmod |
| 22 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 returned | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 overheard | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 overheard | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 overheard | aux |
| 27 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 knowing | ccomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 overheard | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | time | among the foxes | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among fox=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return | past | mare not said here | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 4 | not know | gerund | mare not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | overhear | past · perfect · passive | the prince | 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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