The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 32
‘I see a swarm of brown horses racing madly after us,’ he answered.
Who acts: I, brown horses, man · What happens: see, race, answer · To what, where: swarm · 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 (I, brown horses, man), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 swarm | det |
| 5 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 horses | case |
| 7 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horses | amod |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swarm | nmod |
| 9 | racing | race | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 horses | acl |
| 10 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 9 racing | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 racing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | a swarm of brown horses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swarm=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | race | gerund | brown horses not said here | after us | madly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | man | tree rules |
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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