The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 12
Fortunately no accident happened, only once a fiery horse, pawing with his hoof, struck a hole in my handkerchief, and overthrew his rider and himself.
Who acts: accident · What happens: happen, paw, strike, overthrow · To what, where: hole, handkerchief, rider
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accident), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 accident | det |
| 3 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 horse | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 horse | advmod |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 horse | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 9 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horse | amod |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pawing | punct |
| 12 | pawing | paw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hoof | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pawing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 struck | punct |
| 17 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struck | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 handkerchief | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 22 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hole | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 overthrew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 overthrew | cc |
| 25 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 rider | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overthrew | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 himself | cc |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 overthrew | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | no accident | fortunately property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | paw | gerund | no accident not said here | with accident's hoof | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with hoof=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | no accident not said here | a hole | my handkerchief | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | |||
| 4 | overthrow | past | accident's rider | accident obl | tree rules |
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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