The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 8
So he put the spurs to his horse, and followed it as hard as he could gallop.
Who acts: king · What happens: put, follow, gallop · To what, where: spurs, horse
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spurs | det |
| 5 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 followed | cc |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 followed | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 hard | advmod |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 followed | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 gallop | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gallop | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 gallop | aux |
| 18 | gallop | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hard | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | king | the spurs | to king's horse | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal | |||
| 2 | follow | past | king not said here | horse | hard property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | gallop | could | king | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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