The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 20
He reined in his steed, and flung a short, sharp knife over his shoulder, and up sprung a thick wood between the giant and themselves.
Who acts: prince · What happens: rein, fling, spring · To what, where: steed, short sharp knife, shoulder, thick wood
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reined | nsubj |
| 2 | reined | rein | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 steed | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reined | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flung | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flung | cc |
| 8 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reined | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knife | det |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knife | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knife | amod |
| 13 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flung | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprung | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sprung | cc |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 sprung | advmod |
| 20 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reined | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 22 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wood | amod |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sprung | obj |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 giant | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 giant | det |
| 26 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sprung | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 themselves | cc |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 giant | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rein | past | prince | prince's steed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | prince not said here | a short sharp knife | prince's shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent knife=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | spring | participle | prince not said here | a thick wood | between the giant | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wood=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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