The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 35
The horse soon found a purchaser, and while the two were inside drinking the luck-penny the wizard came along and saw the horse.
Who acts: horse, two · What happens: find, drink, come along, see · To what, where: purchaser, luck penny, horse
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 purchaser | det |
| 6 | purchaser | purchaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 drinking | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 two | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 drinking | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drinking | aux |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 14 drinking | advmod |
| 14 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 came | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 penny | det |
| 16 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 penny | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 luck | punct |
| 18 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drinking | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wizard | det |
| 20 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drinking | obj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 22 | along | along | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 came | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horse | det |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the horse | a purchaser | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchaser=Topic | |||
| 2 | drink | past · progressive | the two | the luck penny | inside property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come along | past | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | the horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
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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