The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 47
But he stretched out his arm and clutched wildly at the mane and pulled himself into the saddle.
Who acts: king · What happens: stretch out, clutch, pull · To what, where: arm, mane, king, saddle
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 (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 | _ | 3 stretched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clutched | cc |
| 8 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 9 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 8 clutched | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 mane | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mane | det |
| 12 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clutched | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pulled | cc |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 pulled | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 saddle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 saddle | det |
| 18 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pulled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | king | king's arm | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | clutch | past | king not said here | the mane | wildly property | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | pull | past | king not said here | king | the saddle | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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