The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 56
And as he was going over the mountain he passed a wolf entangled in a snare, who begged to be set at liberty.
Who acts: prince, snare · What happens: go, pass, entangle, beg, set · To what, where: mountain, wolf, liberty · 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, snare), 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 | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 going | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 passed | advcl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wolf | det |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obj |
| 13 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wolf | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 snare | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 snare | det |
| 16 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entangled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 begged | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 begged | nsubj |
| 19 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 snare | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 set | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 set | aux:pass |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 begged | ccomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 liberty | case |
| 24 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | prince | the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | prince | a wolf | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wolf=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | entangle | participle | a wolf not said here | in a snare | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snare=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | a snare | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | set not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: at liberty=Destination |
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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