The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 10
Next morning, when day was beginning to dawn, the King’s Master of the Horse let out the seven foals; and they ran away, and the youth after them just as it chanced, over hill and dale, through woods end bogs.
Who acts: Master, foals, youth, woods · What happens: begin, let out, run away, chance, end · To what, where: seven foals, hill, bogs
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, foals, youth, woods), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beginning | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 beginning | mark |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beginning | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beginning | aux |
| 7 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 morning | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 dawn | mark |
| 9 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beginning | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 let | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Horse | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Horse | det |
| 17 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Master | nmod |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 let | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 foals | det |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 foals | nummod |
| 22 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 let | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ran | nsubj |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | parataxis |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 ran | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 chanced | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 chanced | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 youth | det |
| 31 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 chanced | nsubj |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 youth | nmod |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 chanced | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 chanced | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 chanced | nsubj |
| 37 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ran | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hill | punct |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 hill | case |
| 40 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 chanced | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 dale | cc |
| 42 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hill | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 end | punct |
| 44 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 46 end | mark |
| 45 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 end | nsubj |
| 46 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 chanced | conj |
| 47 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 end | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | the King's Master of the Horse not said here | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | let out | past | the King's Master of the Horse | the seven foals | morning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme | |||
| 3 | run away | past | foals = foal | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chance | past | the youth after foals | hill and dale | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over hill=Location | ||||
| 5 | end | present | woods | bogs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bog=Eventuality |
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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