The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 89
She had hardly spoken when the horse appeared, and mounting on his back she started for the village where the wedding was to be held.
Who acts: Barbaik, horse · What happens: speak, appear, mount, start, hold · To what, where: back, wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, horse), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 spoken | advmod |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 appeared | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | nsubj |
| 8 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 11 | mounting | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 started | csubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounting | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 village | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 village | det |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 held | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wedding | det |
| 22 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 held | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 held | aux:pass |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 held | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 held | aux:pass |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 village | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Barbaik | hardly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mount | gerund | Brownie's back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | |||||
| 4 | start | past | Barbaik | for the village | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | hold | past · passive | Barbaik not said here | the wedding | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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