The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 57
A young man was out walking one day in Erin, leading a stout cart-horse by the bridle.
Who acts: young man · What happens: walk, lead · To what, where: Erin, stout cart horse
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 (young man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walking | aux |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 was | compound:prt |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Erin | case |
| 10 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 walking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leading | punct |
| 12 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 walking | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 14 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 15 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 horse | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cart | punct |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leading | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 bridle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bridle | det |
| 20 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leading | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | a young man | Erin | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in erin=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | a young man not said here | a stout cart horse | by the bridle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme by bridle=Destination |
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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