The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 88
Here he flung himself from the saddle and hurried up to the pillar.
Who acts: horseman · What happens: fling, hurry up · To what, where: horseman, saddle, pillar
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 (horseman), 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 flung | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flung | nsubj |
| 3 | flung | fling | 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 flung | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 saddle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 saddle | det |
| 7 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hurried | cc |
| 9 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flung | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 hurried | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 pillar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pillar | det |
| 13 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | horseman | horseman | the saddle; here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from saddle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hurry up | past | horseman not said here | the pillar | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pillar=Destination |
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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