The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 137
They came to the forest, which was bursting into bud, and out of it came a splendid horse which Gerda knew; it was the one which had drawn the gold coach ridden by a young girl with a red cap on and pistols in her belt.
Who acts: winds, forest, Gerda, bud · What happens: come, burst, know, be, draw, ride · To what, where: forest, bud, splendid horse, one, pistols, gold coach
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds, forest, Gerda, bud), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bursting | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bursting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bursting | aux |
| 9 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 forest | acl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 bud | case |
| 11 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bursting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | obl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 19 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 horse | amod |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 knew | obj |
| 22 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 horse | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 one | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 one | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 one | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | conj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 drawn | aux |
| 31 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 one | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 coach | det |
| 33 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 coach | compound |
| 34 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drawn | obj |
| 35 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 coach | acl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 girl | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 girl | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 girl | amod |
| 39 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ridden | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 cap | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cap | det |
| 42 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 cap | amod |
| 43 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drawn | obl |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 pistols | case |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 pistols | cc |
| 46 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 drawn | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 belt | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 belt | nmod:poss |
| 49 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drawn | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | winds = wind | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | burst | past · progressive | the forest | bud | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | winds = wind not said here | a splendid horse | bud | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | |||
| 4 | know | past | Gerda | a splendid horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | bud | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | draw | past · perfect · passive | the one | pistols | with a red cap; in Gerda's belt | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary coach=Result | |||
| 7 | ride | participle | the gold coach not said here | by a young girl | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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