Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 12
Black, fiery horses, neighed in the stables.
What happens: neigh · To what, where: Black fiery horses, stables
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horses | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Black | punct |
| 3 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horses | amod |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 neighed | punct |
| 6 | neighed | neigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 horses | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stables | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stables | det |
| 9 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 neighed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 horses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neigh | participle | Black fiery horses not said here | the stables | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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