The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 9
The rest of the king’s cavalry were not very numerous, but they pranced along in armour on fine horses.
Who acts: rest, ankles · What happens: not be, prance · To what, where: armour
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 (rest, ankles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rest | det |
| 2 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 numerous | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cavalry | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cavalry | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rest | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 numerous | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 numerous | advmod |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 numerous | advmod |
| 11 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pranced | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 pranced | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pranced | nsubj |
| 15 | pranced | prance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 numerous | conj |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 pranced | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 armour | case |
| 18 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pranced | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 horses | case |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horses | amod |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pranced | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 numerous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the rest of the king's cavalry | numerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prance | past | ankles = ankle | armour | on fine horses; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armour=Trajectory |
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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