The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 32
So he took out his steel for striking fire, and threw it over the horse’s mane, and the beast stood there as quiet as a lamb.
Who acts: boy, beast · What happens: take out, strike, throw, stand · To what, where: steel, fire, mane
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, beast), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 steel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 striking | mark |
| 8 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 striking | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 mane | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mane | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 18 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stood | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beast | det |
| 22 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 stood | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 quiet | advmod |
| 26 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stood | xcomp |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 lamb | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lamb | det |
| 29 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | boy | boy's steel | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | gerund | boy not said here | fire | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | boy not said here | fire | the horse's mane | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over mane=Destination | |||
| 4 | stand | past | the beast | there | as a lamb; quiet property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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