The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 15

When they were ready to start and the King’s son had already mounted his horse the old woman said: ‘Wait a minute, I must give you a stirrup cup.’

Who acts: brews, old woman, I · What happens: be, start, mount, say, wait, give · To what, where: son, stirrup cup, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brews, old woman, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ready	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ready	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 start	mark
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mounted	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 son	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 King	case
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mounted	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mounted	aux
13	already	already	ADV	_	14 mounted	advmod
14	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ready	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horse	nmod:poss
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mounted	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Wait	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Wait	punct
23	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 minute	det
25	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Wait	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Wait	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 give	iobj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cup	det
32	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cup	compound
33	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 Wait	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 Wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	brews = brew				ready property	tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive	brews = brew not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	mount	past · perfect · passive		the King's son				vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme horse=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	the old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wait	infinitive				minute		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	must	I	a stirrup cup	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cup=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 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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