The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 4
The horses of the army and of the royal stables were no longer shy, having been daily led before me; and one of the Emperor’s huntsmen, on a large courser, took my foot, shoe and all, which was indeed a prodigious leap.
Who acts: horses, one, foot · What happens: be, lead, take · To what, where: foot, prodigious leap
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 (horses, one, foot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horses | det |
| 2 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shy | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 army | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 army | det |
| 5 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horses | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stables | cc |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stables | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stables | det |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stables | amod |
| 10 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 army | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shy | cop |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 shy | advmod |
| 14 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 led | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 led | aux:pass |
| 18 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 19 led | advmod |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 shy | parataxis |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 led | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 took | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 took | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 huntsmen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Emperor | det |
| 27 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 huntsmen | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Emperor | case |
| 29 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 courser | punct |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 courser | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 courser | det |
| 33 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 courser | amod |
| 34 | courser | courser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 huntsmen | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 huntsmen | punct |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shy | parataxis |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 foot | nmod:poss |
| 38 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 shoe | punct |
| 40 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 foot | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 all | cc |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 foot | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 leap | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 leap | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 leap | cop |
| 46 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 49 leap | advmod |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 leap | det |
| 48 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 leap | amod |
| 49 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 foot | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the horses of the army and the royal stables | long, shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund · perfect · passive | before me | daily property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | past | one of the Emperor's huntsmen and a large courser | my foot and shoe and a prodigious leap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | my foot and shoe and a prodigious leap | a prodigious leap | indeed property | 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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