The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 102
And she did as the horses told her, and he ate and rested, till by and bye a long shadow fell over them, and their hearts beat with fear, for they knew that the giant was coming.
Who acts: horse, horses, rock, long shadow, hearts, fears · What happens: do, tell, eat, rest, bye, fall · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, horses, rock, long shadow), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 did | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ate | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ate | nsubj |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rested | cc |
| 14 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ate | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bye | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 bye | mark |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 till | fixed |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bye | cc |
| 19 | bye | bye | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 rested | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 shadow | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shadow | amod |
| 22 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bye | ccomp |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beat | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 beat | cc |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 beat | nsubj |
| 30 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 fear | case |
| 32 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beat | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 knew | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 knew | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 knew | nsubj |
| 36 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beat | advcl |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 coming | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 giant | det |
| 39 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 coming | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 coming | aux |
| 41 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 knew | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the horses | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | rock | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rest | past | rock not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bye | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | fall | past | a long shadow | over tears = tear | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over they=Location | ||||
| 7 | beat | present | tears's hearts | with fear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fear=Theme | ||||
| 8 | know | past | fears = fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | come | past · progressive | the giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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