The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 87

And besides the horses she has a foal and its mother, and the man who serves her must look after them for three whole days, and if he does not let them run away he will in the end get the choice of any horse as a present from the old woman.

Who acts: woman, man, horses · What happens: beside, have, serve, look, not let, run away · To what, where: horses, foal, woman, choice, end

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 (woman, man, horses), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 besides	cc
2	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 besides	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 horses	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 foal	det
8	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foal	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 look	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 serves	nsubj
17	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 man	acl:relcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 serves	obj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 look	aux
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 besides	parataxis
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 look	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 days	case
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 days	amod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 look	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 let	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 let	cc
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 let	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	nsubj
31	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 let	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 let	advmod
33	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 look	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 run	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 get	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 get	aux
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 end	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 end	det
41	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obl
42	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 run	parataxis
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 choice	det
44	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 horse	case
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 horse	det
47	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 choice	nmod
48	as	as	ADP	_	50 present	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 present	det
50	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obl
51	from	from	ADP	_	54 woman	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 woman	det
53	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 woman	amod
54	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 present	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 besides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beside	present		the horses			tree rules
2	have	present	woman	a foal and reality's mother			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient
3	serve	present	the man	woman			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute
4	look	must	the man		after horses = horse; day		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	not let a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	man	horses = horse			tree rules
6	run away	infinitive	horses = horse not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	future	man	the choice of any horse	in the end	as a present from the old woman	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus as present=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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