The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 10
Nothing daunted, however, he went on and on, till he perceived that he was entering a valley with great rocky mountains on all sides, and that his horse was getting very tired and trembled at every stride.
Who acts: king, horse · What happens: daunt, go, perceive, enter, get, tremble · To what, where: Nothing, valley, stride
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 daunted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | daunted | daunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 daunted | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 on | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 on | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 perceived | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 perceived | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 perceived | nsubj |
| 14 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 entering | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 entering | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 entering | aux |
| 18 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 perceived | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 valley | det |
| 20 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entering | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mountains | amod |
| 23 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mountains | amod |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 entering | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 sides | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 sides | det |
| 27 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mountains | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 getting | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 getting | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 getting | mark |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 horse | nmod:poss |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 getting | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 getting | aux |
| 34 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 daunted | conj |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 tired | advmod |
| 36 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 getting | xcomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 trembled | cc |
| 38 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 getting | conj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 stride | case |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 stride | det |
| 41 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 trembled | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 daunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daunt | participle · passive | Nothing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go | past | king | however property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perceive | past | king | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | enter | past · progressive | king | a valley | with great rocky mountains on all sides | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme valley=Destination | |||
| 5 | get | past · progressive | king's horse | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | tremble | participle | king's horse not said here | every stride | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stride=Location |
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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