The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 140
‘So I did,’ replied the mare, ‘but they are no friends of mine and betrayed me.’
Who acts: I, steps · What happens: do, 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, steps), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mare | det |
| 9 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 friends | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 friends | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 friends | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 friends | cop |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 friends | det |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mare | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mine | case |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 betrayed | cc |
| 20 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 betrayed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the mare but no friends | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | steps = step | no friends | of mine | tree rules | |||
| 4 | betray | past | 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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