The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 142
‘The shaggy young horse with the stick saddle,’ answered the king, but he noticed that the Gruagach held his peace, and his brow was dark as he led out the horse from the stable.
Who acts: shaggy young horse, horse, Gruagach, brow · What happens: answer, notice, hold, be, lead out, pacify · To what, where: king, peace, horse, stable · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shaggy young horse, horse, Gruagach, brow), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 3 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 saddle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 saddle | det |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saddle | compound |
| 9 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 noticed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 noticed | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 noticed | nsubj |
| 18 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 held | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Gruagach | det |
| 21 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 held | nsubj |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 noticed | ccomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 peace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dark | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dark | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brow | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dark | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 dark | cop |
| 30 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 noticed | obl |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 led | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 led | nsubj |
| 33 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 dark | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 led | compound:prt |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 horse | det |
| 36 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 led | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 stable | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stable | det |
| 39 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 led | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the shaggy young horse with the stick saddle | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | horse | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | the Gruagach | horse's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | horse's brow | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lead out | past | horse | the horse | the stable | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from stable=Destination | |||
| 6 | pacify | horse | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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