Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 59
Proud, black horses, worth looking at, were neighing in the stable.
Who acts: Proud black horses · What happens: look, neigh · To what, where: stable
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: who acts (Proud black 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 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horses | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proud | punct |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horses | amod |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 neighing | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 worth | punct |
| 6 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horses | amod |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 worth | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 horses | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 neighing | aux |
| 11 | neighing | neigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 stable | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stable | det |
| 14 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neighing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 neighing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Proud black horses not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | neigh | past · progressive | Proud black horses | the stable | 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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