The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 10
They were just setting out again, but now the horses were not able to draw the coach.
Who acts: brother, horses · What happens: set out, not be, draw · To what, where: coach
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, horses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 setting | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 setting | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 setting | advmod |
| 4 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 setting | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 setting | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 able | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 able | cc |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 able | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horses | det |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 able | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 able | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 able | advmod |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 setting | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 draw | mark |
| 16 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coach | det |
| 18 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draw | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past · progressive | brother | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the horses | now | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | the horses not said here | the coach | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=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 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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