The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 15
As he could get no other horse, he went into the forest, broke off a branch, stripped the bark off it, so that it became still whiter than his brothers’ horses, and, mounted on this. rode off after his eleven brothers.
Who acts: eleven, bark · What happens: get, go, break off, strip, become, mount · To what, where: other horse, forest, branch, bark, this
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven, bark), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | advcl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 horse | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horse | amod |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 broke | punct |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 broke | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 branch | det |
| 18 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broke | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stripped | punct |
| 20 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 broke | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bark | det |
| 22 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stripped | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stripped | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 became | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 became | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 became | nsubj |
| 29 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stripped | parataxis |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 whiter | advmod |
| 31 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 became | xcomp |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 horses | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 34 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 horses | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 34 brothers | case |
| 36 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 whiter | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 mounted | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 mounted | cc |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 mounted | punct |
| 40 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 became | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 this | case |
| 42 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 mounted | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 rode | punct |
| 44 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 45 | off | off | ADP | _ | 44 rode | compound:prt |
| 46 | after | after | ADP | _ | 49 brothers | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 48 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 brothers | nummod |
| 49 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 rode | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | eleven | no other horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | eleven | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | break off | past | a branch | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient | |||||
| 4 | strip | past | the bark | bark | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme off it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | become | past | bark | white property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | mount | participle | bark not said here | this | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on this=Destination | ||||
| 7 | ride off | past | eleven not said here | after eleven's eleven brothers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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