The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 69
The blue-grey mare galloped on like the wind, and the next day the king’s son came in sight of his father’s house.
Who acts: grey mare · What happens: gallop on, come, sight · To what, where: grey mare, sight, house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grey 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mare | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grey | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 blue | punct |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mare | amod |
| 5 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 6 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mare | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 galloped | compound:prt |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 galloped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 father | case |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sight | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop on | participle | the grey mare not said here | like the wind | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the grey mare | sight of son's father's house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 3 | sight | son's father's house | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/69/