The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 43
Mounting the horse he rode into the ground where the horses were assembling for the great race, and took his place among them.
Who acts: horse, horses · What happens: mount, ride, assemble, take · To what, where: horse, ground, place
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, horses), 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 | Mounting | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 rode | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mounting | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 assembling | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horses | det |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 assembling | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 assembling | aux |
| 13 | assembling | assemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ground | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 race | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 race | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 race | amod |
| 17 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assembling | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 place | nmod:poss |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | gerund | the horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | horse | the ground | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | assemble | past · progressive | the horses | for the great race | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | horse not said here | horse's place | among birds = bird | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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.
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