The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 73
He sprang to the ground, fastened his horse to a tree, and soon found the iron gate.
Who acts: Désiré · What happens: spring, fasten, find · To what, where: ground, horse, iron gate
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 (Désiré), 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 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fastened | punct |
| 7 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fastened | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fastened | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 found | advmod |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gate | det |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gate | compound |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | Désiré | the ground | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fasten | past | Désiré not said here | Désiré's horse | to a tree | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | find | past | Désiré not said here | the iron gate | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Topic |
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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