Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 13
He then spoke gently to the horse, and patted him with his hand.
Who acts: horse · What happens: speak, pat · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 patted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 patted | cc |
| 10 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 patted | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 patted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | horse | then | to the horse; gently property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to horse=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | pat | past | horse not said here | horse | with horse's hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with hand=Instrument |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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