The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 24
Then, jumping his horse across the trench, he entered the gate of the city, which had opened wide enough to receive him.
Who acts: Peronnik · What happens: jump, enter, open, receive · To what, where: horse, trench, gate, city, Peronnik
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik), 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 jumping | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumping | punct |
| 3 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 entered | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumping | obj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 trench | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trench | det |
| 8 | trench | trench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumping | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 entered | nsubj |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gate | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opened | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 opened | aux |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 city | acl:relcl |
| 21 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 20 opened | advmod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 opened | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 receive | mark |
| 24 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 opened | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 receive | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | gerund | Peronnik not said here | Peronnik's horse | the trench | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent horse=Theme across trench=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | enter | past | Peronnik | the gate of the city | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination | ||||
| 3 | open | past · perfect · passive | the city | enough, wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | receive | to-infinitive | Peronnik | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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