The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 123
But the horse had already shaken off the halter and flung himself into a goose-pond, where he changed himself into a little fish.
Who acts: horse · What happens: shake off, fling, change · To what, where: horse, goose pond
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 shaken | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shaken | aux |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 shaken | advmod |
| 6 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 halter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 halter | det |
| 9 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaken | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flung | cc |
| 11 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shaken | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 flung | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 pond | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pond | det |
| 15 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pond | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 goose | punct |
| 17 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 changed | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 changed | nsubj |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pond | acl:relcl |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 changed | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 fish | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fish | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fish | amod |
| 26 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake off | past · perfect · passive | the horse | off the halter | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme halter=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | horse | a goose pond | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into pond=Destination | ||||
| 3 | change | past | horse | horse | into a little fish result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into fish=Result |
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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