The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 51
The hands led a wooden horse up to the Prince, and seemed to expect him to mount it, at which he was very indignant; but it was no use for him to object, for he speedily found himself upon its back, and it pranced gaily off with him.
Who acts: hands, horse, sight, hunting · What happens: lead up, seem, expect, mount, be, find · To what, where: wooden horse, horse, hunting, use, sight
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (hands, horse, sight, hunting), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hands | det |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 5 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 led | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | cc |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 expect | mark |
| 15 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 expect | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 mount | mark |
| 18 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 expect | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mount | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 indignant | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 indignant | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 indignant | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 indignant | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 indignant | advmod |
| 26 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mount | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 use | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 use | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 use | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 use | cop |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 use | det |
| 32 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | parataxis |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 use | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 object | mark |
| 36 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 use | acl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 found | punct |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 found | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 found | nsubj |
| 40 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 41 found | advmod |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | parataxis |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 found | obj |
| 43 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 back | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 back | nmod:poss |
| 45 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 found | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 pranced | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 pranced | cc |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 pranced | nsubj |
| 49 | pranced | prance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 50 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 51 off | advmod |
| 51 | off | off | ADV | _ | 49 pranced | advmod |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 him | case |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 pranced | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead up | past | the hands | a wooden horse | to the Prince | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | expect | to-infinitive | horse | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mount not said to happen | to-infinitive | horse not said here | hunting | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | sight | indignant property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | hunting | no use | for sight | tree rules | |||
| 7 | find | past | sight | sight | upon hunting's back; speedily property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 8 | prance | past | hunting | with sight; off property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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