The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 14
The youth seated himself on the dappled horse which he had captured, and rode home again to the King’s palace, and Dapplegrim ran loose by his side.
Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim · What happens: seat, dapple, capture, ride, run · To what, where: Dapplegrim, dappled horse, palace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Dapplegrim), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 7 | dappled | dapple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 captured | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 captured | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 captured | aux |
| 12 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 horse | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rode | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rode | cc |
| 15 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | parataxis |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 rode | advmod |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 rode | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 palace | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rode | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 25 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ran | nsubj |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rode | conj |
| 27 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 26 ran | advmod |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 side | nmod:poss |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ran | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | the youth | Dapplegrim | on the dappled horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 2 | dapple | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | capture | past · perfect · passive | the dappled horse | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride | past | the King's palace | again | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | run | past | Dapplegrim | by Dapplegrim's side; loose property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
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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