Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 14
When he had qui-et-ed him a little, he made a quick spring, and leaped upon the horse's back.
Who acts: horse · What happens: have, make, leap · To what, where: qui et ed, back
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | advcl |
| 4 | qui | qui | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 ed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 qui | punct |
| 6 | et | ET | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ed | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 et | punct |
| 8 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ed | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spring | det |
| 16 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spring | amod |
| 17 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leaped | cc |
| 20 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 back | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | horse | qui et ed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | horse | spring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | leap | participle | horse not said here | the horse's back | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon back=Trajectory |
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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