The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 6
They unbridled their horses and tied them to trees.
Who acts: men · What happens: unbridl, tie · To what, where: horses, men
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 unbridled | nsubj |
| 2 | unbridled | unbridl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horses | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 unbridled | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tied | cc |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 unbridled | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tied | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tied | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 unbridled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unbridl | past | men = man | men's horses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | men = man not said here | men = man | to trees | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to tree=Co-Patient |
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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