The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 58
Then from the valley appeared the knight on the black horse, grasping the lance with the black pennon.
Who acts: valley · What happens: appear, grasp · To what, where: knight, lance
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valley), 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 | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 valley | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 valley | det |
| 4 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 horse | amod |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grasping | punct |
| 13 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 appeared | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lance | det |
| 15 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grasping | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 pennon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pennon | det |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pennon | amod |
| 19 | pennon | pennon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grasping | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the valley | the knight | then | on the black horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knight=Theme | ||
| 2 | grasp | gerund | the valley not said here | the lance | with the black pennon | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lance=Experiencer with pennon=Instrument |
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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