The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 129
‘I did go to the foxes,’ replied the mare, ‘but they are no friends of mine and betrayed me.’
Who acts: I, brothers · 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, brothers), 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 | to | to | 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 | , | , | 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 | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | 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 | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mine | case |
| 21 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friends | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 betrayed | cc |
| 23 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 betrayed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | I | to the foxes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fox=Initial_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 | brothers = brother | no friends | of mine | tree rules | |||
| 4 | betray | past | I not said here | 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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