The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 60
But that was not quite the truth, for he had never mounted a horse in his life.
Who acts: that, lad · What happens: not be, not mount · To what, where: truth, horse, life
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, lad), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 truth | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 truth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 truth | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 truth | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 truth | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mounted | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 mounted | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mounted | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mounted | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 mounted | advmod |
| 13 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 truth | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mounted | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mounted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 truth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | that | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mount | past · perfect | lad | a horse | lad's life | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in life=Destination |
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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