The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 23
However the young Prince, who was both hot and thirsty, found his way to the farm, to ask for a drink of cider, and he inquired the name of the beautiful lady that kept the sheep.
Who acts: young Prince, Prince, beautiful lady · What happens: be, find, ask, inquire, keep, name · To what, where: way, name, sheep, beautiful lady
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, Prince, beautiful lady), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 13 found | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hot | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hot | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hot | cop |
| 8 | both | both | ADV | _ | 9 hot | advmod |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thirsty | cc |
| 11 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hot | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 farm | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 farm | det |
| 18 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ask | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ask | mark |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 drink | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 drink | det |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 cider | case |
| 26 | cider | cider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drink | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 inquired | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 inquired | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 inquired | nsubj |
| 30 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 name | det |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 inquired | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 lady | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 lady | det |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lady | amod |
| 36 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 name | nmod |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 kept | nsubj |
| 38 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 lady | acl:relcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sheep | det |
| 40 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 kept | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young Prince | both, hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the young Prince not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | find | past | the young Prince | Prince's way | to the farm; however property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | for a drink of cider | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | inquire speech: other | past | Prince | the name of the beautiful lady | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | keep | past | the beautiful lady | the sheep | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 7 | name | the beautiful lady | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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