The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 86
But no one can ever get this horse without first serving the old woman for three whole days.
Who acts: one · What happens: get, serve · To what, where: horse, old woman
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 (one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 serving | mark |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 serving | advmod |
| 11 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 get | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 serving | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 serving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | no one | this horse | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | serve | gerund | no one not said here | the old woman | day | first property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Attribute |
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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