The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 126
The prince did so, and in a moment the fox became a mare and stood before him, with the little foal at her heels.
Who acts: prince, fox · What happens: do, become, stand · To what, where: 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 (prince, fox), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mare | det |
| 14 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 became | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 foal | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 foal | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 foal | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 foal | amod |
| 23 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 heels | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heels | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 foal | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | past | the fox | a mare | moment | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | stand | past | the fox not said here | before prince | with the little foal at mare's heels | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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