The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 88
When the feast was over, Hábogi led up a beautiful horse from a field where he had left it to graze, and bade Helga jump up on its splendid saddle, all embroidered in scarlet and gold.
Who acts: feast, Hábogi, need, bade, splendid saddle · What happens: be, lead up, leave, graze, jump up, embroider · To what, where: beautiful horse, field, splendid saddle, all, scarlet
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, Hábogi, need, bade), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 led | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 7 | Hábogi | Hábogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 led | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 field | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 field | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 left | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 field | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 graze | mark |
| 22 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 left | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 jump | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 jump | cc |
| 25 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jump | nsubj |
| 26 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 bade | appos |
| 27 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 led | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 jump | compound:prt |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 saddle | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 31 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 saddle | amod |
| 32 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jump | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 embroidered | punct |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 embroidered | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 saddle | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 scarlet | case |
| 37 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 embroidered | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 gold | cc |
| 39 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 scarlet | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead up | past | Hábogi | a beautiful horse | a field | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | need | field | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | graze | to-infinitive | need not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | jump up | present | bade | bade's splendid saddle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saddle=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | embroider | participle · passive | bade's splendid saddle not said here | all | scarlet and gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in scarlet=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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