The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 133

He started to his feet, and then stopped, for he remembered what the old woman had said, and pulled out the wolf’s grey lock.

Who acts: prince, old woman · What happens: start, stop, remember, say, pull out · To what, where: grey lock · 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 started	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stopped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stopped	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stopped	advmod
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remembered	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 remembered	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 remembered	nsubj
13	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stopped	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 remembered	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 what	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pulled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pulled	cc
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 remembered	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 pulled	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wolf	det
25	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lock	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 wolf	case
27	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lock	amod
28	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pulled	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	prince			to prince's feet	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	stop	past	prince not said here		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	remember	past	prince				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	pull out	participle		the wolf's grey lock			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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