The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 15
Sticking his spurs into his horse he made a rush at the mountain, and got up half-way, then he calmly turned his horse’s head and came down again without a slip or stumble.
Who acts: neighbourhood · What happens: stick, make, get up, turn, come down, spur · To what, where: spurs, rush, mountain, half way, head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbourhood), 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 | Sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 made | csubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sticking | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sticking | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rush | det |
| 10 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rush | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 got | compound:prt |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 way | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 half | punct |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 turned | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 24 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 horse | nmod:poss |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 horse | case |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 turned | conj |
| 32 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 came | advmod |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 came | advmod |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 slip | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 slip | det |
| 36 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 stumble | cc |
| 38 | stumble | stumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 slip | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | gerund | neighbourhood's spurs | into neighbourhood's horse | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spur=Theme into horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | past | neighbourhood | a rush | the mountain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=Product | |||
| 3 | get up | past | neighbourhood not said here | half way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | neighbourhood | neighbourhood's horse's head | then | calmly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||
| 5 | come down | past | neighbourhood not said here | again | without a slip or stumble; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | spur | neighbourhood | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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