The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 95
Throwing himself on the ground he looked over the side, and right at the very bottom he saw his wife and his horses.
Who acts: rock · What happens: throw, look, see · To what, where: rock, ground, side, wife
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 (rock), 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 | Throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 right | csubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Throwing | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throwing | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ground | acl:relcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 right | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 right | cc |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 bottom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 bottom | advmod |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 right | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 horses | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wife | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | rock | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 2 | look | past | rock | the ground not said here | the side | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Attribute | |||
| 3 | see | past | rock | rock's wife and rock's horses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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