The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 84
But the horse made one bound forward, and the princess was forced to hold tight by his mane, lest she should fall off.
Who acts: horse, princess · What happens: make, bind, force, hold, fall off · To what, where: one, princess
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, princess), 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 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 one | acl |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 bound | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forced | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forced | aux:pass |
| 13 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hold | mark |
| 15 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forced | xcomp |
| 16 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hold | xcomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 mane | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mane | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hold | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fall | punct |
| 21 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 24 fall | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fall | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 fall | aux |
| 24 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hold | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 fall | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the horse | one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | ||||
| 2 | bind | participle | forward property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | the princess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | by king's mane; tight property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mane=Location | ||||
| 5 | fall off | should | princess | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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