The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 50
He spared his horse only so much as was needful, yet it took him six days to reach the spot where the plant grew.
Who acts: deal, it, plant · What happens: spare, be, take, reach, grow · To what, where: horse, deal, spot
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, it, plant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spared | nsubj |
| 2 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spared | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spared | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 needful | mark |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 needful | cop |
| 10 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 much | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spared | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 reach | mark |
| 19 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 took | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spot | det |
| 21 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | obj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 grew | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plant | det |
| 24 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 spot | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past | deal | deal's horse | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient much=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | past | deal not said here | needful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | it | deal | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | the spot | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | the plant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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