The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 36

‘A swarm of black horses, and one has a white face, and on that horse a man is seated.

Who acts: swarm · What happens: have, seat · To what, where: white face, man

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 (swarm), 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	_	10 has	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 swarm	det
3	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 horses	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swarm	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 face	det
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 face	amod
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seated	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seated	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 horse	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seated	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seated	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seated	aux:pass
22	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 has	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a swarm of black horses	a white face					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	seat	present · passive		a man				on that horse	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value

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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