More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 76
Then she knew this was her own Tamlane, and springing forward she seized the bridle of the milk-white steed and pulled its rider down.
Who acts: court, this · What happens: know, be, spring, seize, pull down · To what, where: own Tamlane, bridle, rider · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (court, this), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Tamlane | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Tamlane | cop |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Tamlane | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Tamlane | amod |
| 8 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seized | cc |
| 11 | springing | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 seized | csubj |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 springing | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seized | nsubj |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bridle | det |
| 16 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 steed | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 steed | det |
| 19 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 white | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 milk | punct |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 steed | amod |
| 22 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bridle | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pulled | cc |
| 24 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 rider | nmod:poss |
| 26 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pulled | obj |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 pulled | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | court | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | court's own Tamlane | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spring | gerund | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seize | past | court | the bridle of the white steed | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pull down | past | court not said here | steed's rider | down property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=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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