The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 122

As he went he suddenly remembered the words that the old woman had said to the mare, and he drew out the fox hair and twisted it in his fingers.

Who acts: prince, old woman · What happens: go, remember, say, draw out, twist · To what, where: words, mare, fox hair, hair, fingers · 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 (prince, old 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remembered	nsubj
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 remembered	advmod
6	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 words	det
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 remembered	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 said	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 words	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mare	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mare	det
17	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drew	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drew	nsubj
21	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remembered	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 drew	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hair	det
24	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hair	compound
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 twisted	cc
27	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remembered	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 twisted	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 fingers	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fingers	nmod:poss
31	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 twisted	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	prince					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remember	past	prince	the words			suddenly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the old woman	the words	the mare			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to mare=Recipient
4	draw out	past	prince	the fox hair				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
5	twist	past	prince not said here	hair		prince's fingers		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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