More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 20
He ties his horse safe to a tree, and pulls out his watch.
Who acts: boy · What happens: tie, pull out · To what, where: horse, watch
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | 2 ties | nsubj |
| 2 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ties | obj |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ties | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safe | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulls | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pulls | cc |
| 11 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ties | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pulls | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 watch | nmod:poss |
| 14 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulls | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ties | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | present | boy | boy's horse | safe property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | pull out | present | boy's watch | tree rules |
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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