The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 57
Presently the Afghans appeared, out of breath and furious, and claimed the horse.
Who acts: Afghans · What happens: appear, claim · To what, where: breath, horse
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 (Afghans), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Afghans | det |
| 3 | Afghans | Afghan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 breath | punct |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 breath | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 breath | case |
| 8 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 furious | cc |
| 10 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 breath | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 claimed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 claimed | cc |
| 13 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 claimed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the Afghans | breath | presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out breath=Location | |||
| 2 | claim speech: other | past | the Afghans not said here | the horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
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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