The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 48
Here he perceived two pitch-black horses in a stall.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: perceive · To what, where: two black horses, stall
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 perceived | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 horses | nummod |
| 5 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 black | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 pitch | punct |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horses | amod |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 perceived | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 stall | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stall | det |
| 11 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Iwanich | two black horses | a stall; here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
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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