The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 45
But the head rolled off, and was caught in the brown horse’s mouth.
Who acts: head · What happens: roll off, catch · To what, where: mouth
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 (head), 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 | _ | 4 rolled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | nsubj |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 rolled | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | aux:pass |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rolled | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 12 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horse | amod |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 horse | case |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll off | participle | the head | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | the head not said here | the brown horse's mouth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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