The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 51
In the morning Moti followed the two Afghans outside the city to the horsemarket in which they horses were offered for sale.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: follow, offer · To what, where: two Afghans, city, Afghans, horsemarket
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | obl |
| 4 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Afghans | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Afghans | nummod |
| 8 | Afghans | Afghan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | obj |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Afghans | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 horsemarket | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horsemarket | det |
| 14 | horsemarket | horsemarket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 city | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 offered | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 offered | aux:pass |
| 20 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 horsemarket | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 sale | case |
| 22 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Moti | the two Afghans | the city to the horsemarket | morning | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent afghan=Theme outside city=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | offer | past · passive | Afghans = afghan | the horsemarket | for sale goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for sale=Goal |
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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