The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 120
So the horse stood there stamping, and kicking, and snorting, and rearing, and out came a girl who thought it a sin and a shame to treat a horse so ill.
Who acts: horse, girl · What happens: stand, stamp, kick, rear, come, think · To what, where: halter, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | stamping | stamp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kicking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kicking | cc |
| 9 | kicking | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stamping | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 snorting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 snorting | cc |
| 12 | snorting | snorting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kicking | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rearing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rearing | cc |
| 15 | rearing | rear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stamping | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 girl | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sin | det |
| 26 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thought | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 shame | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 shame | det |
| 29 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sin | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 treat | mark |
| 31 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 horse | det |
| 33 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 treat | obj |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 ill | advmod |
| 35 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 treat | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the horse | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stamp | gerund | the horse not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kick | gerund | the horse not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | rear | gerund | the horse not said here | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come | past | a girl | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | a girl | halter | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | treat | to-infinitive | a horse | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient |
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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