The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 18
The King went and looked at both the dappled horses; he looked high and he looked low, he looked before and he looked behind, but there was not a hair’s difference between the two.
Who acts: King, difference · What happens: go, look, be
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 (King, difference), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 horses | case |
| 7 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 10 horses | cc:preconj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horses | det |
| 9 | dappled | dappled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horses | amod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looked | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | conj |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 looked | conj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 25 looked | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 was | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 was | cc |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 was | expl |
| 30 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 difference | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hair | det |
| 33 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 difference | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 hair | case |
| 35 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 was | nsubj |
| 36 | between | between | ADP | _ | 38 two | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 two | det |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 difference | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the King | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the King not said here | at the dappled horses | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | King | high property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | look | past | King | low property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | look | past | King | before property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | look | past | King | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | be | past | a hair's difference between the two | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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