The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 137
The prince did as he was bid, and as the hair touched his fingers the wolf changed back into a mare, with the foal beside her.
Who acts: prince, hair, wolf · What happens: do, bid, touch, change back · To what, where: prince, fingers
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, hair, wolf), 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 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bid | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux:pass |
| 7 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 touched | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 touched | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hair | det |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touched | nsubj |
| 13 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 touched | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wolf | det |
| 17 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changed | nsubj |
| 18 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 touched | parataxis |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 changed | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 mare | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mare | det |
| 22 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 foal | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 foal | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 foal | det |
| 26 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changed | obl |
| 27 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 foal | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | 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 | bid | past · passive | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | the hair | prince's fingers | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme finger=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | change back | past | the wolf | into a mare result; with the foal beside mare | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into mare=Result |
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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