The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 14
By this time his horse could hardly move from fatigue, his hound staggered panting along beside him, he was far away amongst mountains where he had never been before, and had quite missed his way, and not a human creature or dwelling was in sight.
Who acts: horse, hound · What happens: move, stagger, pant, be, not be, miss · To what, where: fatigue, way
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 (horse, hound), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 move | aux |
| 7 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 move | advmod |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 fatigue | case |
| 10 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 staggered | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hound | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 staggered | nsubj |
| 14 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 move | conj |
| 15 | panting | pant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 staggered | xcomp |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 panting | advmod |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 panting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 away | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 away | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 away | cop |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 move | advmod |
| 24 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 25 mountains | case |
| 25 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 away | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 before | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 before | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 before | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 before | advmod |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 before | cop |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 away | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 missed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 missed | cc |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 missed | aux |
| 35 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 36 missed | advmod |
| 36 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 move | parataxis |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 way | nmod:poss |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 missed | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 creature | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 creature | cc |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 creature | advmod |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 creature | det |
| 43 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 creature | amod |
| 44 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 missed | obl |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 dwelling | cc |
| 46 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 creature | conj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 creature | acl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 sight | case |
| 49 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 was | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | could | darkness's horse | fatigue | time | hardly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from fatigue=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | stagger | past | darkness's hound | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pant | gerund | darkness's hound not said here | beside darkness; along property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | hound | amongst mountains; away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | past · perfect | hound | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | miss | past · perfect | darkness's way | a human creature obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | dwell | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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