The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 39
And the neighing of horses and the clanking of swords were heard close at hand.
What happens: neigh, hear · To what, where: clanking
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 neighing | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 neighing | det |
| 3 | neighing | neigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 horses | case |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 neighing | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clanking | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clanking | det |
| 8 | clanking | clanking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horses | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 swords | case |
| 10 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heard | obl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 clanking | acl:relcl |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heard | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 close | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 neighing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neigh | gerund | of horses and the clanking | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the clanking not said here | of swords; close property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of sword=Stimulus |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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