The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 36
Then the youth pricked forth upon a dapple grey horse of four years old, with a bridle of linked gold, and gold upon his saddle.
Who acts: youth · What happens: prick, link
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | 4 pricked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pricked | nsubj |
| 4 | pricked | prick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 pricked | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 8 | dapple | dapple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | compound |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horse | amod |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pricked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 old | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horse | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bridle | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bridle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bridle | det |
| 18 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pricked | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 20 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 gold | amod |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bridle | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gold | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gold | cc |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bridle | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 saddle | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 27 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gold | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | participle | the youth | then | upon a dapple grey horse; forth property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | link | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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