The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 13
Every man bridled his horse and mounted, the Captain put himself at their head, and they returned as they came.
Who acts: man, Captain, men · What happens: bridle, mount, put, return, come · To what, where: horse, captain, head
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Captain, men), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridled | nsubj |
| 3 | bridled | bridle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mounted | cc |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bridled | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Captain | det |
| 10 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bridled | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bridled | conj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 returned | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bridled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bridle | past | every man | Ali's horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | mount | participle | every man not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | the Captain | captain | men's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at head=Destination | |||
| 4 | return | past | men = man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | past | men = man | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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