The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 56
He set his horse at the wall and leaped over it.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: set, leap · To what, where: horse, wall
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past 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 set | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leaped | cc |
| 9 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 set | conj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leaped | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Prince | Prince's horse | the wall | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at wall=Destination | |||
| 2 | leap | participle | Prince not said here | wall | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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