The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 56
As soon as the horse had arrived at its table it stopped of its own accord and Moti immediately rolled off; but he jumped up at once, tied the beast up, and called for some breakfast.
Who acts: horse, entrance, Moti · What happens: arrive, stop, roll off, jump up, tie up, call · To what, where: table, beast · 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 (horse, entrance, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 stopped | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 arrived | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | aux |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stopped | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 table | nmod:poss |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 accord | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 accord | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 accord | amod |
| 16 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stopped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Moti | cc |
| 18 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 accord | conj |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 rolled | advmod |
| 20 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | advcl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 rolled | compound:prt |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 jumped | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 jumped | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 jumped | nsubj |
| 25 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 jumped | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 jumped | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tied | punct |
| 30 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 jumped | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 beast | det |
| 32 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tied | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 tied | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 called | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 called | cc |
| 36 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 jumped | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 breakfast | case |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 breakfast | det |
| 39 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 called | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | the horse | entrance's table | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | entrance | of entrance's own accord and Moti; soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | roll off | past | entrance not said here | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump up | past | Moti | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | tie up | past | Moti not said here | the beast | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | Moti not said here | for some breakfast | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breakfast=Recipient |
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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