The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 30
Foremost of the enemy rides a mad giant at a furious gallop.
Who acts: Foremost · What happens: ride · To what, where: mad giant, furious gallop
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foremost), 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 | Foremost | Foremost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rides | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 enemy | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 enemy | det |
| 4 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Foremost | nmod |
| 5 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 giant | amod |
| 8 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rides | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 gallop | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gallop | det |
| 11 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gallop | amod |
| 12 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rides | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | Foremost of the enemy | a mad giant | a furious gallop | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/16/30/