The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 82
Now when they drew near the land it came to pass just as the ravens had predicted, and a splendid chestnut horse bounded forward.
Who acts: ravens, shirt, splendid chestnut horse · What happens: draw, come, pass, predict, bound · To what, where: land, ravens
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 (ravens, shirt, splendid chestnut 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drew | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 drew | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 land | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pass | mark |
| 11 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | xcomp |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 predicted | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 predicted | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ravens | det |
| 15 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 predicted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 predicted | aux |
| 17 | predicted | predict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pass | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bounded | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bounded | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 21 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 horse | amod |
| 22 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 horse | compound |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bounded | nsubj |
| 24 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drew | conj |
| 25 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 24 bounded | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | ravens = raven | the land | now | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | shirt | the land not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | shirt not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | predict | past · perfect · passive | the ravens | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bound | participle | a splendid chestnut horse | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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