The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 70
In a short time he had come up with them, and as he snatched the empress out of her saddle he said to the prince:
Who acts: dragon · What happens: come up, snatch, say · To what, where: empress, saddle, prince · 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 (dragon), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 snatched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 snatched | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 snatched | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 snatched | nsubj |
| 15 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 empress | det |
| 17 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snatched | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 saddle | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 saddle | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 empress | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saddle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 prince | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 prince | det |
| 26 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past · perfect | dragon | time | with horses = horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | snatch | past | dragon | the empress | empress's saddle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent empress=Theme out saddle=Source | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | dragon | empress's saddle not said here | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent saddle=Topic to prince=Recipient |
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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