The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 29
Then the two friends set out, but the horse chose what roads he pleased, and directed Ciccu in everything.
Who acts: two friends, horse · What happens: set out, choose, direct · To what, where: Ciccu, everything
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 (two friends, horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 friends | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 friends | nummod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chose | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 chose | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chose | nsubj |
| 11 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 chose | obj |
| 13 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pleased | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pleased | nsubj |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 directed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 directed | cc |
| 18 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chose | conj |
| 19 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 directed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 everything | case |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 directed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the two friends | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | the horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | direct | past | the horse not said here | Ciccu | everything | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent ciccu=Theme in everything=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/38/29/