The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 52
Choosing the best-looking horse amongst them he went up to it and said:
Who acts: Moti · What happens: choose, look, go up, say · To what, where: looking horse, horsemarket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 went | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 looking | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Choosing | obj |
| 7 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Choosing | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | gerund | the looking horse | amongst horses = horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | go up | past | Moti | horsemarket | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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