The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 49
He entered the courtyard, tied up his horse, and went indoors.
Who acts: Norka, courtyard · What happens: enter, tie up, go · To what, where: courtyard, horse
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 (Norka, courtyard), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtyard | det |
| 4 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tied | punct |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 courtyard | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 tied | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 13 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Norka | the courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tie up | participle | the courtyard not said here | Norka's horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Norka not said here | indoors property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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