English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 32
The prince here drew bridle and spoke, “Open, open, green hill, and let the young prince in with his horse and his hound,” and Kate added, “and his lady him behind.”
Who acts: prince, Kate · What happens: draw, speak, let, add · To what, where: bridle, young prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Kate), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 prince | advmod |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spoke | cc |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Open | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Open | punct |
| 10 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spoke | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 open | punct |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Open | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hill | punct |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hill | amod |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Open | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 prince | amod |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 horse | case |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 horse | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 horse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hound | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hound | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 horse | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 added | cc |
| 32 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 added | nsubj |
| 33 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 him | punct |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 him | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 him | cc |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 lady | nmod:poss |
| 38 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 him | nsubj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 added | advcl |
| 40 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 33 added | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 added | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the prince | bridle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the prince not said here | open property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | the young prince | in prince's horse and prince's hound | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | Kate | behind property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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