The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 103

‘Mount at once,’ said the horse; ‘this time it is very simple,’ and he carried Ciccu to the banks of the little stream.

Who acts: Mount, time, Ciccu · What happens: say, be, carry · To what, where: horse, Ciccu, banks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mount, time, Ciccu), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mount	punct
2	Mount	mount	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 Mount	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mount	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mount	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 simple	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 simple	punct
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 simple	nsubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 simple	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 simple	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 simple	advmod
17	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 simple	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 simple	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carried	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	nsubj
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
23	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 banks	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 banks	det
26	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carried	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 stream	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stream	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stream	amod
30	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 banks	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mount	the horse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	is	present	this time			simple property	tree rules
3	carry	past	Ciccu	Ciccu	the banks of the little stream		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ciccu=Theme to bank=Destination

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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