The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 33
This recalled to him his promise and his danger, so he led out the horse without looking at the golden saddle again.
Who acts: prince · What happens: recall, lead out, look, promise · To what, where: prince, horse
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), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 promise | nsubj |
| 2 | recalled | recall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 promise | amod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recalled | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 promise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 danger | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 danger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 led | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 led | nsubj |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 promise | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 led | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obj |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 looking | mark |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 led | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 saddle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 saddle | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 saddle | amod |
| 22 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 looking | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | participle | prince | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | |||||
| 2 | lead out | past | prince | the horse | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | prince not said here | again | at the golden saddle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at saddle=Theme | |||
| 4 | promise | prince | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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