The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 73
She had not time to look for it, but sprang to the saddle and rode like an arrow to the birch tree.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: have, look, spring · To what, where: saddle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 time | advmod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sprang | cc |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 saddle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 saddle | det |
| 14 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 16 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saddle | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 arrow | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 arrow | det |
| 19 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rode | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arrow | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | daughter | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | for circlet | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | daughter not said here | the saddle and rode like a arrow to the birch tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to saddle=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 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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