The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 31
He threw the grains of gold in the proper places, and untied the horse, but with that he caught sight of the golden saddle, and thought that none but it could suit so beautiful a horse, especially as it had golden shoes.
Who acts: prince, horse · What happens: throw, untie, catch, think, suit, have · To what, where: grains, proper places, horse, sight, golden shoes, golden saddle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grains | det |
| 4 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grains | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 places | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 places | det |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 places | amod |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 untied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 untied | cc |
| 13 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 untied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caught | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 caught | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 caught | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caught | nsubj |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caught | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 saddle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 saddle | det |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 saddle | amod |
| 26 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sight | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thought | cc |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 beautiful | mark |
| 31 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 37 beautiful | nsubj |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 suit | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 suit | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 suit | aux |
| 35 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 none | conj |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 beautiful | advmod |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thought | ccomp |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 horse | det |
| 39 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 beautiful | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 had | punct |
| 41 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 44 had | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 had | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 had | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thought | conj |
| 45 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 shoes | amod |
| 46 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 had | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | prince | the grains of gold | the proper places | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent grain=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 2 | untie | past | prince not said here | the horse | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | prince | sight of the golden saddle | with that | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | suit | could | horse | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | past | horse | golden shoes | especially property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | |||
| 7 | sight | the golden saddle | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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