The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 30
The horse threw back his head at these words, and laughed scornfully.
Who acts: horse · What happens: throw back, laugh · To what, where: head, words
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughed | cc |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 13 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 12 laughed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw back | past | the horse | horse's head | this words | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme at word=Destination | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | the horse not said here | scornfully property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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