The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 128
So Ian mounted the horse and set her face to the sea and her back to the shore, and she was off, away and away till she reached the church of Grianaig, and there, in a field of grass, beside a well of water, he leaped down from his saddle.
Who acts: Ian, horse · What happens: mount, set, be, reach, leap down · To what, where: horse, well, face, church, saddle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian, horse), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 set | cc |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 back | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sea | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 shore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shore | det |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 off | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 off | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 off | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 off | cop |
| 23 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 mounted | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 away | punct |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 off | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 away | cc |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 off | conj |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 reached | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 reached | nsubj |
| 30 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 church | det |
| 32 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reached | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Grianaig | case |
| 34 | Grianaig | Grianaig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 church | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 there | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 there | cc |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 field | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 field | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 field | det |
| 41 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | parataxis |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 grass | case |
| 43 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 field | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 well | punct |
| 45 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 47 well | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 well | det |
| 47 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 water | case |
| 49 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 well | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 leaped | punct |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 leaped | nsubj |
| 52 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 53 | down | down | ADP | _ | 52 leaped | compound:prt |
| 54 | from | from | ADP | _ | 56 saddle | case |
| 55 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 56 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 leaped | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Ian | the horse | a well of water; there | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme beside well=Destination | |||
| 2 | set | past | Ian not said here | horse's face | to the sea and horse's back; to the shore | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient face=Result | |||
| 3 | is | past | horse | away, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | horse | the church of Grianaig | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent church=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leap down | past | Ian | Ian's saddle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from saddle=Trajectory |
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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