The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 97
Colt, free to run and free to eat, Colt, gallop fast until we meet,
Who acts: we · What happens: run, eat, gallop, meet · To what, where: Colt
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 (we), 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 | Colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 free | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 free | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 free | cc |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 free | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 free | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Colt | punct |
| 11 | Colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gallop | punct |
| 13 | gallop | gallop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 free | parataxis |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 gallop | advmod |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | nsubj |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gallop | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Colt | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Patient | |||||
| 3 | gallop | infinitive | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet | present | we | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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