The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 158
And the prince’s horse answered, ‘Why do you serve a monster like that?
Who acts: horse, you · What happens: answer, serve · To what, where: monster · 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 (horse, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 serve | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 serve | punct |
| 9 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 serve | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 serve | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 serve | nsubj |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 monster | det |
| 14 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 serve | obj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 monster | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince's horse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | serve | present · do-support | you | a monster | like that | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Attribute |
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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