The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 98
Next morning, when I went to my stable I saw that two of my horses, Windfoot and Tiger, were thin and worn out.
Who acts: I, two horses · What happens: go, see, be, wear out · To what, where: stable · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, two horses), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stable | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stable | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 thin | mark |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 horses | nummod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 horses | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horses | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thin | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Windfoot | punct |
| 18 | Windfoot | Windfoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 horses | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Tiger | cc |
| 20 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Windfoot | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 horses | punct |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thin | cop |
| 23 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 worn | cc |
| 25 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 thin | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 worn | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | my stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | my two horses | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear out | participle | my two horses not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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