The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 78
They brought him a horse, fleet as the breeze of the dawn; he set his willing foot in the stirrup of safety and rode off.
Who acts: people, arrow, dawn · What happens: bring, set, ride off, breeze · To what, where: horse, arrow, willing foot, stirrup
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 (people, arrow, dawn), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fleet | punct |
| 7 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 breeze | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 breeze | det |
| 10 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dawn | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dawn | det |
| 13 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breeze | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 foot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 foot | amod |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 stirrup | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stirrup | det |
| 22 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 safety | case |
| 24 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stirrup | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rode | cc |
| 26 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 rode | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | people | a horse and fleet | arrow | as the breeze of the dawn | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination horse=Theme | ||
| 2 | set | past | arrow | arrow's willing foot | the stirrup of safety | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in stirrup=Destination | |||
| 3 | ride off | past | arrow not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | breeze | the dawn | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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 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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