The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 36
But the horse heard and stood ready at the door, and as Ciccu came flying down the stairs and jumped on his back he sped away like the wind, and never stopped till they arrived at the king’s palace.
Who acts: horse, Ciccu, stairs · What happens: hear, stand, come, fly, jump, speed away · To what, where: stairs, back, palace
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 (horse, Ciccu, stairs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 heard | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stood | cc |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ready | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Ciccu | case |
| 14 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 came | xcomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 stairs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stairs | det |
| 19 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flying | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 jumped | cc |
| 21 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sped | nsubj |
| 26 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 jumped | parataxis |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 sped | advmod |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 wind | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wind | det |
| 30 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sped | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stopped | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stopped | cc |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 stopped | advmod |
| 34 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 arrived | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 arrived | nsubj |
| 37 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 stopped | advcl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 palace | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 king | det |
| 40 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 palace | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 king | case |
| 42 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 arrived | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the horse | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the horse not said here | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the horse not said here | as Ciccu | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | the horse not said here | the stairs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stair=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | jump | past | the horse not said here | Ciccu's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | speed away | past | Ciccu | like the wind; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not stop | past | the horse not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | arrive | past | stairs = stair | the king's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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