The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 8
Then he went out to the path down which Rogear, his mare, and the colt always rode, and crumbled the bread on one side of it.
Who acts: colt · What happens: go out, ride, crumble · To what, where: Rogear, bread, one side
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 path | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 path | det |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 Rogear | nsubj |
| 10 | Rogear | Rogear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mare | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mare | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rogear | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rode | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 colt | det |
| 17 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | nsubj |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 rode | advmod |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crumbled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crumbled | cc |
| 22 | crumbled | crumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rode | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bread | det |
| 24 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crumbled | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 side | nummod |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crumbled | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 side | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | colt | Rogear | then | to the path; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | ride | past | the colt | always property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | crumble | past | the colt not said here | the bread | one side of bread | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
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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