The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 67
In the courtyard you will find a green horse with three heads and twelve feet, and by its side a sword eighteen yards long.
Who acts: you · What happens: find · To what, where: green horse, courtyard
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 courtyard | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 courtyard | det |
| 3 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 heads | case |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 heads | nummod |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 horse | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 feet | cc |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 feet | nummod |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heads | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 long | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 long | cc |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 side | nmod:poss |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 long | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sword | det |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 long | nsubj |
| 23 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 yards | nummod |
| 24 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 long | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 find | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | you | a green horse | the courtyard | with three heads and twelve feet | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
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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