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The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 26

The Prince’s horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the beast, and again began fighting with it.

Who acts: horse, Prince · What happens: awake, jump, set off, catch up, begin, fight · To what, where: Prince, pursuit, beast

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:1385): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

detnmod:posscasensubjobjpunctadvmodnsubjparataxiscasedetoblpunctccconjcompound:prtadvmodcaseoblpunctconjcompound:prtdetobjpunctccadvmodconjxcompcaseoblpunctrootTheDETPrincePROPN’sPARThorseNOUNawokeVERBhimPRON;PUNCTupADVhePRONjumpedVERBinADPaDETmomentNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsetVERBoffADPagainADVinADPpursuitNOUN,PUNCTcaughtVERBupADPtheDETbeastNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJagainADVbeganVERBfightingVERBwithADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Princedet
2PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing4 horsenmod:poss
3’s'sPART_2 Princecase
4horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing5 awokensubj
5awokeawakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 awokeobj
7;;PUNCT_10 jumpedpunct
8upupADV_10 jumpedadvmod
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 jumpednsubj
10jumpedjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 awokeparataxis
11ininADP_13 momentcase
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 momentdet
13momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing10 jumpedobl
14,,PUNCT_16 setpunct
15andandCCONJ_16 setcc
16setsetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 jumpedconj
17offoffADP_16 setcompound:prt
18againagainADV_16 setadvmod
19ininADP_20 pursuitcase
20pursuitpursuitNOUNNumber=Sing16 setobl
21,,PUNCT_22 caughtpunct
22caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 jumpedconj
23upupADP_22 caughtcompound:prt
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 beastdet
25beastbeastNOUNNumber=Sing22 caughtobj
26,,PUNCT_29 beganpunct
27andandCCONJ_29 begancc
28againagainADV_29 beganadvmod
29beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 jumpedconj
30fightingfightVERBVerbForm=Ger29 beganxcomp
31withwithADP_32 itcase
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 fightingobl
33..PUNCT_5 awokepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1awakepastthe Prince's horsePrincevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
2jumppastPrincemomentvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3set offpastPrince not said herepursuitagainvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4catch uppastPrince not said herethe beastvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
5beginpastPrince not said hereagainvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6fightgerundPrince not said herewith beastvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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