The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 30
So one day as Prince Fickle rode by she said to her little calf:
Who acts: one day, Helena · What happens: ride, say · To what, where: little calf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one day, Helena), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 rode | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 Fickle | case |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fickle | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Fickle | Fickle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 said | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rode | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 calf | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 calf | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 calf | amod |
| 14 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | one day as Fickle Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Helena | Helena's little calf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to calf=Recipient |
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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