The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 78
‘But tell me about that wonderful horse you were riding yesterday.
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, ride · To what, where: me, wonderful horse · 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 (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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 horse | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 riding | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 riding | aux |
| 11 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 horse | acl:relcl |
| 12 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 riding | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | about that wonderful horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about horse=Topic | |||
| 2 | ride | past · progressive | you | that wonderful horse not said here | yesterday | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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