The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 77
Here he dismounted, tied the horse to a bush, and, drawing out Prince Omar’s dagger climbed up the hill.
Who acts: courage, drawing · What happens: dismount, tie, draw out, climb up · To what, where: horse, dagger, hill
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courage, drawing), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dismounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tied | punct |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bush | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bush | det |
| 10 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 climbed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 climbed | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drawing | punct |
| 14 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 climbed | csubj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 drawing | compound:prt |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Omar | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Omar | case |
| 19 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drawing | obj |
| 20 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 climbed | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hill | det |
| 23 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 climbed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | courage | here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | courage not said here | the horse | to a bush | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to bush=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | draw out | gerund | Omar Prince's dagger | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme | |||||
| 4 | climb up | past | drawing | the hill | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme |
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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