The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 61
Then, leaping on his horse, he shouted, ‘Now, my steed, fly like the wind!’ and they rode right through the world, till one day they came to the town where the young man and his wife lived.
Who acts: brother, hearts, young man · What happens: leap, shout, fly, ride, come, live · To what, where: steed, world, town
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, hearts, young man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 leaping | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaping | punct |
| 3 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 shouted | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaping | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaping | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 steed | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 steed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steed | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 steed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fly | punct |
| 17 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 steed | parataxis |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 wind | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wind | det |
| 20 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fly | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 steed | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 steed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rode | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rode | nsubj |
| 25 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shouted | conj |
| 26 | right | right | ADV | _ | 25 rode | advmod |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rode | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 31 | till | till | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 day | nummod |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rode | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 town | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 town | det |
| 38 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 lived | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 man | det |
| 41 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 man | amod |
| 42 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 lived | nsubj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 wife | cc |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 wife | nmod:poss |
| 45 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 man | conj |
| 46 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 town | acl:relcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | gerund | brother not said here | then | on brother's horse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | brother | my steed | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly | infinitive | like the wind | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride | past | hearts = heart | the world | right property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through world=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | come | past | hearts = heart | the town | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | live | past | the young man and brother's wife | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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