The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 1
and instantly the colt appeared, frisking and jumping to the wizard, who threw a halter over his neck and leapt on his back.
Who acts: colt, wizard · What happens: appear, frisk, jump, throw · To what, where: halter, neck
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt, wizard), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 appeared | cc |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 colt | det |
| 4 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 frisking | punct |
| 7 | frisking | frisk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 appeared | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 jumping | cc |
| 9 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 frisking | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wizard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wizard | det |
| 12 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jumping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 threw | nsubj |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wizard | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 halter | det |
| 17 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 neck | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 leapt | cc |
| 22 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 neck | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 back | nmod:poss |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the colt | instantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | frisk | gerund | the colt not said here | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | jump | gerund | the colt not said here | to the wizard result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wizard=Result | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | the wizard | a halter | colt's neck and leapt | on colt's back | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent halter=Theme over neck=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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