The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 75
‘Ask the dragon when he comes home,’ said the prince, ‘where he got that wonderful horse from, and then you can tell me, and I will try to find another like it.’
Who acts: dragon, you, I · What happens: ask, come, say, get, tell, try · To what, where: dragon, prince, wonderful horse, me, another · 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, you, I), 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 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ask | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 comes | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ask | advcl |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 comes | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 got | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 horse | det |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horse | amod |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 got | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tell | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 tell | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 tell | aux |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | parataxis |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | iobj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 try | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 try | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 try | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 try | aux |
| 34 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 tell | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 find | mark |
| 36 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 try | xcomp |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 find | obj |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 find | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 tell | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the dragon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dragon=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | come | present | dragon | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | past | dragon | that wonderful horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | can | you | me | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 6 | try | future | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | another | like scheme | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic |
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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