The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 59
Ciccu clapped on the lid, put a strong cord round it, tied it fast on his horse, and rode back to the king.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: clap, put, tie, ride back · To what, where: lid, strong cord, cord
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 (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 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 clapped | nsubj |
| 2 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 lid | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lid | det |
| 5 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clapped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 clapped | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cord | det |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cord | amod |
| 10 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tied | punct |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clapped | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tied | obj |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 tied | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rode | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rode | cc |
| 22 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clapped | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 rode | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rode | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | Ciccu | the lid | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lid=Location | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Ciccu not said here | a strong cord | round cord | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cord=Goal | |||
| 3 | tie | past | Ciccu not said here | cord | on Ciccu's horse; fast property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient on horse=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | ride back | past | Ciccu not said here | to the king | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to king=Trajectory |
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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