The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 41
Then his horse fell and surrendered its life to God.
Who acts: horse · What happens: fall, surrender · To what, where: life, God
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 surrendered | cc |
| 6 | surrendered | surrender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surrendered | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 God | case |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 surrendered | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Prince's horse | then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | surrender | past | Prince's horse not said here | horse's life | God | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to god=Recipient |
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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