The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 59
And the prince undid the snare and let the wolf go.
Who acts: prince, wolf · What happens: undo, let, go · To what, where: snare, wolf
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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 undid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 undid | nsubj |
| 4 | undid | undo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snare | det |
| 6 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 undid | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 undid | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolf | det |
| 10 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 undid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undo | past | the prince | the snare | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the prince not said here | the wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the wolf not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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