The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 38
When the horse saw this it changed itself to a dove, and flew up into the air.
Who acts: horse, thing · What happens: see, change, fly up · To what, where: this, thing, air
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, thing), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 changed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 dove | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dove | det |
| 11 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 flew | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the horse | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | change | past | thing | thing | to a dove | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 3 | fly up | past | thing not said here | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |
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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