The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 53
The horse in its fright suddenly reared, and before anyone could stop it flung the maiden into the swift current below.
Who acts: horse, anyone, ball · What happens: rear, stop, fling, fright · To what, where: maiden, swift current
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, anyone, ball), 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 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reared | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fright | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fright | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | nmod |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 reared | advmod |
| 7 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stop | cc |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | aux |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reared | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flung | nsubj |
| 15 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flung | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 current | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 current | det |
| 20 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 current | compound |
| 21 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flung | obl |
| 22 | below | below | ADV | _ | 21 current | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear | past | the horse in ball's fright | suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | could | anyone | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fling | past | ball | the maiden | the swift current | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme into current=Destination | |||
| 4 | fright | ball | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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