The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 46

‘Jump on my brother, the black horse, and go home as fast as you can, and I will follow as quickly as I may,’ cried the brown horse; and leaping forward the king alighted on the back of the black horse, but so near the tail that he almost fell off again.

Who acts: you, I, king · What happens: jump, go, follow, cry, leap, alight · To what, where: brown horse, king, back, that

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 (you, I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct
2	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 brother	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jump	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 horse	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brother	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Jump	conj
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 fast	advmod
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 go	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 can	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fast	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 follow	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 follow	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 follow	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 follow	aux
23	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Jump	conj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 quickly	advmod
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	23 follow	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 may	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 may	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 quickly	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Jump	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 horse	det
33	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horse	amod
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cried	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 leaping	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 leaping	cc
37	leaping	leap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Jump	advcl
38	forward	forward	ADV	_	37 leaping	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 king	det
40	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leaping	obj
41	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 king	acl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 back	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 back	det
44	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 alighted	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 horse	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 horse	det
47	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 horse	amod
48	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 back	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 tail	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 tail	cc
51	so	so	ADV	_	54 tail	advmod
52	near	near	ADP	_	54 tail	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 tail	det
54	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 king	conj
55	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 fell	obl:unmarked
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 fell	nsubj
57	almost	almost	ADV	_	58 fell	advmod
58	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 tail	advcl
59	off	off	ADP	_	58 fell	compound:prt
60	again	again	ADV	_	58 fell	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	imperative	you not said here				on my brother and the black horse	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brother=Trajectory
2	go	infinitive	you not said here				fast, home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	future	I				quickly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	you not said here	the brown horse				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
5	leap	gerund	you not said here	the king but the tail			forward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location king=Theme
6	alight	participle		the king but the tail not said here	the back of the black horse			tree rules
7	fall off	past	king	that		again	almost property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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