The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 75
Creeping forward step by step he took the garments from off the saddle and put them on him, and painfully he mounted the horse.
Who acts: man · What happens: creep, take, put, mount · To what, where: forward step, garments, saddle, horse
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 took | csubj |
| 2 | forward | forward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 step | amod |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Creeping | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 step | case |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Creeping | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garments | det |
| 9 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 saddle | case |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 saddle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 saddle | det |
| 13 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mounted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mounted | cc |
| 21 | painfully | painfully | ADV | _ | 23 mounted | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 mounted | nsubj |
| 23 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horse | det |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mounted | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | gerund | forward step | by step | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location step=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | man | the garments | the saddle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent garment=Theme from saddle=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | man not said here | garments = garment | on man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 4 | mount | past | man | the horse | painfully property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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