The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 4
All day long, while he was herding the cows, he thought and thought how he was to call the colt, for he felt sure that once on its back he could overcome the other dangers.
Who acts: colt · What happens: herd, think, be, feel, overcome · To what, where: cows, other dangers · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 long | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 herding | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 herding | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 herding | aux |
| 8 | herding | herd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cows | det |
| 10 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 herding | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 herding | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 call | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 call | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 call | mark |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 colt | det |
| 22 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 call | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 felt | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 call | conj |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 felt | xcomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 overcome | mark |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 35 overcome | advmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 back | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 back | nmod:poss |
| 32 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 once | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 overcome | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 overcome | aux |
| 35 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dangers | det |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 dangers | amod |
| 38 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 overcome | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | herd | past · progressive | colt | the cows | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | colt | long property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | colt not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | colt | call property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | colt | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | overcome | could | colt | the other dangers | once property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot danger=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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