The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 61
And when she saw that he was turning his horse back she threw one of the golden apples down after him, and it rolled into his shoe.
Who acts: Princess, knight, top · What happens: see, turn back, throw, roll · To what, where: horse, one, shoe
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 (Princess, knight, top), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 threw | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 turning | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turning | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turning | aux |
| 8 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 threw | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turning | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 turning | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | nsubj |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 apples | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 apples | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 apples | amod |
| 18 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 threw | advmod |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rolled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rolled | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rolled | nsubj |
| 25 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 threw | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 shoe | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 28 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rolled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | turn back | past · progressive | knight | knight's horse | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Princess | one of the golden apples | after knight | down property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||
| 4 | roll | past | top | knight's shoe | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shoe=Destination |
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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