The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 11
Suppose--but no! the mare and her rider went safely by, vanishing round a corner, while the colt, trotting along with its head on the ground, smelt the bread, and began greedily to lick up the pieces.
Who acts: you, mare · What happens: suppose, go, vanish, trot, smelt, begin · To what, where: colt, ground, bread, pieces
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 (you, mare), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 mare | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 mare | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mare | det |
| 7 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rider | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rider | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mare | conj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Suppose | parataxis |
| 12 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vanishing | punct |
| 15 | vanishing | vanish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 corner | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 corner | det |
| 18 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vanishing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 colt | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 colt | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 colt | det |
| 22 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Suppose | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 trotting | punct |
| 24 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Suppose | advcl |
| 25 | along | along | ADV | _ | 24 trotting | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trotting | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 ground | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ground | det |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trotting | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 smelt | punct |
| 33 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Suppose | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bread | det |
| 35 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 smelt | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 began | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 began | cc |
| 38 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 smelt | conj |
| 39 | greedily | greedily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 began | xcomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 lick | mark |
| 41 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 greedily | advcl |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 lick | compound:prt |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 pieces | det |
| 44 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lick | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | the colt | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the mare and mare's rider | safely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vanish | gerund | the mare and mare's rider not said here | round a corner | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | trot | gerund | you not said here | the ground | with corner's head; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | smelt | infinitive | the bread | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | begin | past | greedily property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | lick up | to-infinitive | the pieces | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Source |
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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