The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 68
When they reach the land a chestnut horse will dash forward to greet them: the King will wish to mount it, and if he does it will gallop away with him, and disappear into the air, and he will never see his bride again.”
Who acts: desire, chestnut horse, King, horse · What happens: reach, dash, greet, wish, mount, gallop away · To what, where: land, desire, horse, air, bride
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire, chestnut horse, King, horse), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reach | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dash | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reach | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 7 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | compound |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dash | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 dash | aux |
| 10 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 dash | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 greet | mark |
| 13 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dash | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 greet | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 wish | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wish | aux |
| 19 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dash | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 mount | mark |
| 21 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wish | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mount | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gallop | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gallop | cc |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 does | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 does | nsubj |
| 27 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 gallop | aux |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gallop | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 gallop | aux |
| 30 | gallop | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wish | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 gallop | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gallop | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 disappear | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 disappear | cc |
| 36 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wish | conj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 air | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 air | det |
| 39 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 disappear | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 see | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 see | cc |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 see | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 see | aux |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 see | advmod |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wish | conj |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 bride | nmod:poss |
| 47 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 see | obj |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 45 see | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dash | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 dash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | desire | the land | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dash | future | a chestnut horse | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | a chestnut horse not said here | desire | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | future | the King | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mount not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | gallop away | present · do-support | horse | with king; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | disappear | infinitive | the King not said here | the air | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | not see | future | king | king's bride | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus |
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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