The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 33
Then the coachman whipped up his horses, and they set out for Buda.
Who acts: coachman, horses · What happens: whip up, set out · To what, where: horses
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, horses), 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 | 4 whipped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coachman | det |
| 3 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whipped | nsubj |
| 4 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 whipped | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 whipped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whipped | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Buda | case |
| 14 | Buda | Buda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whip up | past | the coachman | king's horses | then | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent horse=Material | |||
| 2 | set out | past | horses = horse | for Buda | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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