The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 75
The horse no sooner had been driven off with the prince’s body on its back than it galloped straight to the home of the fairies, and knocked at the door with its hoof.
Who acts: body · What happens: drive off, gallop, knock · To what, where: home
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 no | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 no | compound |
| 3 | no | no | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sooner | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 driven | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 driven | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 driven | aux:pass |
| 7 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 driven | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driven | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 galloped | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 galloped | nsubj |
| 19 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 driven | advcl |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 home | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 home | det |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 galloped | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fairies | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fairies | det |
| 26 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 home | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knocked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 knocked | cc |
| 29 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 galloped | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knocked | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 hoof | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knocked | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive off | past · perfect · passive | with the prince's body on body's back; soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V» | |||||
| 2 | gallop | past | body | the home of the fairies | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | knock | past | body not said here | with body's hoof; at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient with hoof=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: «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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