The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 68
‘Eat your supper with a free mind first,’ answered the horse, ‘and follow them afterwards.’
Who acts: you · What happens: eat, answer, follow · To what, where: supper, horse, horses
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 2 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 supper | nmod:poss |
| 4 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Eat | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mind | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mind | det |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mind | amod |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Eat | obl |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 Eat | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Eat | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 follow | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 18 follow | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 follow | cc |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Eat | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 follow | obj |
| 20 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 follow | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | your supper | with a free mind; first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | you not said here | horses = horse | afterwards property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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