The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 56
Early every morning he led the horses out to the fields, and brought them home safe and sound in the evening.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: lead out, bring · To what, where: horses, fields
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 (Prince), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 led | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horses | det |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 led | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 fields | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fields | det |
| 11 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | obj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 brought | advmod |
| 17 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brought | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sound | cc |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 safe | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 evening | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 evening | det |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead out | past | Prince | the horses | the fields | morning | early, out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to field=Destination | |
| 2 | bring | past | Prince not said here | horses = horse | evening | home, safe property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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 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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