The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 10
But next year, when he returned to look after the dappled colt and the mares, he was quite appalled.
Who acts: youth · What happens: return, look, dapple, be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 returned | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 returned | advcl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 colt | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 colt | det |
| 12 | dappled | dapple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 colt | amod |
| 13 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mares | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mares | det |
| 16 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 colt | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appalled | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 appalled | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 appalled | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 appalled | advmod |
| 21 | appalled | appalled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 returned | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | youth | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | youth not said here | after the dappled colt and the mares | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dapple | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | youth | appalled property | tree rules |
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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