The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 152
Not long after the dragon came home, and when he found the empress was missing he said to his horse, ‘What shall we do?
Who acts: skin, empress, we · What happens: come, find, miss, say, do · 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 (skin, empress, we), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 dragon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 found | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 empress | det |
| 14 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 missing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 missing | aux |
| 16 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 found | ccomp |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 horse | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 24 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 do | obj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | after the dragon | home, long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | skin | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | miss | past · progressive | the empress | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | skin | to skin's horse | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to horse=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do | shall | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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