The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 11
She strapped it lightly on the horse’s back, and then led it down before the house, where the king waited.
Who acts: horse, king · What happens: strap, lead down, wait · To what, where: saddle, house
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, king), 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 | 2 strapped | nsubj |
| 2 | strapped | strap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 strapped | obj |
| 4 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 2 strapped | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ’s | obl |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 strapped | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 ’s | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 led | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 led | advmod |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 strapped | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 led | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 led | compound:prt |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waited | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 waited | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waited | nsubj |
| 23 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 house | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strap | past | horse | saddle | lightly property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | lead down | past | horse not said here | saddle | the house | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before house=Destination | ||
| 3 | wait | past | the king | vn exist-47.1 «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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