More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 120
So on she went again with a light heart, and by-and-by she came to a saddled horse, tied to a tree.
Who acts: Folk · What happens: go, come, saddle, tie · To what, where: saddled horse
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Folk), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | compound |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 came | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 21 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 horse | amod |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tied | punct |
| 24 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 horse | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tied | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Folk | again | with a light heart | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with heart=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | come | past | Folk | to a saddled horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to horse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | saddle | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tie | participle | a saddled horse not said here | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=Co-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: «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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