The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 57
So he did this, and took the bridle which was hanging on a crook, and strode up the mountain-side, and it was not long before he met with the horse, and fire and red flames streamed forth out of its nostrils.
Who acts: giant, bridle, side · What happens: do, take, hang, stride up, not be, meet · To what, where: this, bridle, crook, mountain side, red flames, nostrils
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, bridle, side), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridle | det |
| 9 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hanging | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hanging | aux |
| 12 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 bridle | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 crook | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crook | det |
| 15 | crook | crook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hanging | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strode | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 strode | cc |
| 18 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 strode | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 mountain | punct |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strode | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 long | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 long | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 long | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 long | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 long | advmod |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 strode | advmod |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 met | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 met | nsubj |
| 32 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 long | advcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 horse | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 horse | det |
| 35 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 met | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fire | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fire | cc |
| 38 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strode | parataxis |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 flames | cc |
| 40 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 flames | amod |
| 41 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 fire | conj |
| 42 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 flames | acl |
| 43 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 42 streamed | advmod |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 nostrils | case |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 nostrils | case |
| 46 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 47 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 streamed | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | giant | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | past | giant not said here | the bridle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang | past · progressive | the bridle | a crook | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crook=Location | ||||
| 4 | stride up | past | giant not said here | the mountain side | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | side | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | meet | past | giant | with the horse | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with horse=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | stream | participle | red flames not said here | side's nostrils | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nostril=Location |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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