The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 209
The mare pulled it a little forward, and then a little back, and then it stopped quite short.
Who acts: mare, spot · What happens: pull, stop · To what, where: spot
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, spot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mare | det |
| 2 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pulled | obl |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 little | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 back | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 back | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 back | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 back | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 back | amod |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stopped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stopped | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 stopped | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stopped | nsubj |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 short | advmod |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stopped | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | the mare | spot | a little obl; a little back obl | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | stop | past | spot | then | short property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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