The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 29
He jumped lightly on his horse, and was a mile from home before Tubby had ceased laughing.
Who acts: man, Tubby · What happens: jump, be, cease, laugh · To what, where: mile, home
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Tubby), 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 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mile | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mile | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mile | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mile | det |
| 11 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mile | nmod |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 ceased | mark |
| 15 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ceased | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ceased | aux |
| 17 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 jumped | advcl |
| 18 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ceased | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | man | on man's horse; lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a mile | home | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cease | past · perfect | Tubby | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | Tubby not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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