The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 124
‘The old witch’s mare has run away from me, and I do not know where to look for her.’
Who acts: I · What happens: run away, not know, look · To what, where: mare · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | amod |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mare | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 witch | case |
| 6 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 away | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 run | conj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 look | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 look | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | present · perfect · passive | the old witch's mare | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | for mare | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=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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