The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 80
‘Every day he passes along here, mounted on a black mare, with a colt thirteen months old trotting behind.
Who acts: magician · What happens: pass, mount · To what, where: old trotting
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 passes | punct |
| 2 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passes | nsubj |
| 5 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 here | case |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 passes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mounted | punct |
| 9 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passes | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 mare | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mare | det |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mare | amod |
| 13 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 months | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 months | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thirteen | det |
| 17 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thirteen | compound |
| 18 | thirteen | thirteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 months | compound |
| 19 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 trotting | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 trotting | amod |
| 21 | trotting | trotting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounted | obl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 21 trotting | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | magician | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along here=Location | ||||
| 2 | mount | participle | magician not said here | old trotting with thirteen months | on a black mare | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mare=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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