The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 64
When he had got safely past the cleft in the rock, the youngest foal said:
Who acts: Cinderlad, youngest foal · What happens: get, say · To what, where: cleft · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cinderlad, youngest foal), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 cleft | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cleft | det |
| 8 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cleft | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 foal | det |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 foal | amod |
| 15 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Cinderlad | the cleft in the rock | safely property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past cleft=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youngest foal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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