The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 42
When he got beyond the town he took out his golden apple, and when the horse sprang out he swung himself into the saddle.
Who acts: housekeeper, horse · What happens: get, take out, spring out, swing · To what, where: golden apple, housekeeper, saddle
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housekeeper, 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | advcl |
| 4 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 apple | nmod:poss |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 apple | amod |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swung | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 swung | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 sprang | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sprang | nsubj |
| 18 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 swung | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sprang | compound:prt |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 swung | nsubj |
| 21 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 swung | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 saddle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 saddle | det |
| 25 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swung | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | housekeeper | beyond the town | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | housekeeper | housekeeper's golden apple | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring out | past | the horse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | swing | past | housekeeper | housekeeper | the saddle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into saddle=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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