The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 16
But the horse never stopped nor looked behind, till in the dark of the night he reached the castle of the king of the oak windows.
Who acts: horse, king · What happens: not stop, look, reach · To what, where: castle
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stopped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 stopped | advmod |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | conj |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dark | punct |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 dark | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dark | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dark | det |
| 13 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dark | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 night | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 castle | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 windows | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 windows | det |
| 26 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 windows | compound |
| 27 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 king | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | past | the horse | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the horse not said here | till the dark of the night | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | reach | past | king | the castle of the king of the oak windows | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=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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