The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 48
Then he threw himself off, and waited while the horse plunged in.
Who acts: man · What happens: throw off, wait, plunge in · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 threw | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waited | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waited | cc |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 horse | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waited | advcl |
| 12 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 waited | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 plunged | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw off | past | man | man | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | past | man not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | plunge in | participle | man not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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