More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 71
And he choked and spluttered in the dust that the squire's horse had raised.
Who acts: lad · What happens: choke, splutter, raise · To what, where: dust, horse
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 choked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 choked | nsubj |
| 3 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spluttered | cc |
| 5 | spluttered | splutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 choked | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dust | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dust | det |
| 8 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spluttered | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 raised | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 squire | det |
| 11 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 squire | case |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 raised | aux |
| 15 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 spluttered | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 choked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choke | past | lad | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | splutter | participle | lad not said here | the dust | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dust=Location | ||||
| 3 | raise | past · perfect · passive | the squire's horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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