The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 17
Hastily he led the bay colt from his stall, and put the golden saddle on her back, and the silver bridle over his head, and with the colt's bridle in his hand, he hurried to meet the princess.
Who acts: king · What happens: lead, put, hurry, meet · To what, where: bay colt, stall, golden saddle, back, princess
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 colt | det |
| 5 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colt | amod |
| 6 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 stall | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stall | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 colt | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 led | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 saddle | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saddle | amod |
| 15 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bridle | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bridle | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bridle | det |
| 22 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bridle | amod |
| 23 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bridle | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bridle | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bridle | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 bridle | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 colt | det |
| 31 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bridle | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 colt | case |
| 33 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 hand | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 hand | nmod:poss |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bridle | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hurried | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 hurried | nsubj |
| 39 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 meet | mark |
| 41 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 hurried | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 princess | det |
| 43 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 meet | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | king | the bay colt | king's stall | the silver bridle over king's head obl; hastily property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colt=Theme from stall=Destination | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | king not said here | the golden saddle | Erin's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 3 | hurry | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | king not said here | the princess | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent |
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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