The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 37
The prince put spurs to his horse and pursued it; and was soon lost to the sight of his followers.
Who acts: prince · What happens: put, pursue, lose, sight · To what, where: spurs, place, followers
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pursued | cc |
| 9 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pursued | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lost | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lost | aux:pass |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 lost | advmod |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 followers | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 followers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sight | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the prince | spurs | to Prince's horse | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal | |||
| 2 | pursue | past | the prince not said here | place | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | the prince not said here | to the sight of Prince's followers; soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | sight | Prince's followers | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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