The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 44
Many good beasts were there which had won many races, but the horse of the fisher’s son left them all behind, and he was first at the winning post.
Who acts: horse · What happens: win, leave, be · To what, where: Many good beasts, beasts, winning post
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), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beasts | amod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beasts | amod |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 won | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 won | aux:pass |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 won | advmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 won | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 won | aux |
| 8 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 races | amod |
| 10 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 won | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fisher | det |
| 17 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 fisher | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | nmod |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 won | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | obj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 behind | advmod |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 20 left | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 post | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 post | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 post | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 post | cop |
| 28 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 post | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 post | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 post | det |
| 31 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 post | amod |
| 32 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 won | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · perfect · passive | Many good beasts | there | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary race=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the horse of the fisher's son | beasts = beast | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | win | gerund | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | horse | the winning post | first property | tree rules |
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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