More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 141
He was mounted on the fiercest horse that ever saw sun or wind, and set out on his desperate task.
Who acts: John · What happens: mount, see, set out, task · To what, where: John, fiercest horse, desperate task
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | aux:pass |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 6 | fiercest | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 horse | amod |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 saw | obj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 saw | advmod |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 horse | acl:relcl |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 wind | cc |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sun | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 task | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 task | nmod:poss |
| 20 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 task | amod |
| 21 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | John | on the fiercest horse | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the fiercest horse | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | John's desperate task | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | task | John | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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