The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 97
Here he dismounted, and bidding his horse go home, he pushed forward on foot.
Who acts: king · What happens: dismount, bid, go, push forward · To what, where: horse
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:1829): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dismounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pushed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pushed | cc |
| 6 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 pushed | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bidding | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bidding | xcomp |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bidding | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pushed | nsubj |
| 13 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 pushed | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | king | here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bid | gerund | king not said here | king's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | king not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | push forward | past | king | on foot; forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on foot=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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