The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 40
He dismounted and toiled on, with bridle on arm, praying and casting himself on the mercy of heaven.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: dismount, toil, pray, cast · To what, where: Prince, mercy
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dismounted | nsubj |
| 2 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 toiled | cc |
| 4 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dismounted | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 toiled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bridle | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bridle | case |
| 8 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 toiled | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bridle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 praying | punct |
| 12 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 toiled | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 casting | cc |
| 14 | casting | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 praying | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 casting | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 mercy | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mercy | det |
| 18 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 casting | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heaven | case |
| 20 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mercy | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | Prince | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | toil | past | Prince not said here | with bridle on arm | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pray | gerund | Prince not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | cast | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince | the mercy of heaven | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on mercy=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 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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