The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 87
The horse was brought out and Owen rode forth with two pages behind him, and they saw the great host encamped before them.
Who acts: Owen, maidens · What happens: bring out, ride, see, encamp · To what, where: horse, great host
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 (Owen, maidens), 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 | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 brought | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 7 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | nsubj |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 pages | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pages | nummod |
| 12 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rode | obl |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pages | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rode | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 host | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 host | amod |
| 21 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 22 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 host | acl |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 encamped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | past · passive | the horse | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | Owen | with two pages behind husband; forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | maidens = maiden | the great host | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | encamp | participle | the great host not said here | before maidens = maiden | tree rules |
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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