The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 104
In a moment the king came running up, and he seized the colt's bridle.
Who acts: king, Ian · What happens: come, run up, seize · To what, where: bridle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Ian), 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 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 running | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seized | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seized | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seized | nsubj |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 colt | det |
| 14 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bridle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 colt | case |
| 16 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run up | gerund | the king not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | Ian | the colt's bridle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=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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