The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 73
So before sunrise he stole out early, saddled his horse, and rode off to the mountain.
Who acts: brother · What happens: steal out, saddle, ride off · To what, where: sunrise, horse, mountain
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 saddled | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 sunrise | case |
| 3 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saddled | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stole | nsubj |
| 5 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sunrise | acl:relcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stole | compound:prt |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 stole | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sunrise | punct |
| 9 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saddled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rode | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rode | cc |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saddled | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 rode | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal out | past | brother | sunrise not said here | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sunrise=Theme | |||
| 2 | saddle | past | brother's horse | sunrise | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ride off | past | the mountain | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to mountain=Trajectory |
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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