The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 11
The Prince asked him if he were hungry, and when the wolf said he was, he got down from his horse and said, ‘If you are really as you say and look, you may take my horse and eat it.’
Who acts: Prince, father, wolf, you · What happens: ask, be, say, get down, look, eat · To what, where: father, wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, father, wolf, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 hungry | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hungry | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | cop |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 said | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 was | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 take | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 take | punct |
| 28 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 take | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 take | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 take | cop |
| 31 | really | really | ADV | _ | 40 take | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 say | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 say | nsubj |
| 34 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 take | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 look | cc |
| 36 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 say | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 say | punct |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 take | nsubj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 take | aux |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 horse | nmod:poss |
| 42 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 take | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 eat | cc |
| 44 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 take | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 eat | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 take | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince | father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | father | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | past | father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get down | past | father | from father's horse; down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | look | present | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | is a condition, not said to happen | may · present | you | take property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | eat | infinitive | you not said here | wolf | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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