The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 81
On the following morning he led the mare and foal to the fields as usual, but bound a cord round them both which he kept in his hand.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: follow, lead, keep · To what, where: mare, fields, cord, hand
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 led | nsubj |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mare | det |
| 8 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 foal | cc |
| 10 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mare | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 led | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 usual | case |
| 15 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 led | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cord | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 cord | cc |
| 18 | bound | bound | ADP | _ | 20 cord | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cord | det |
| 20 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | parataxis |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cord | nmod |
| 23 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 them | appos |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 kept | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kept | nsubj |
| 26 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cord | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kept | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lead | past | Iwanich | the mare and foal | the fields | morning | as usual | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=Theme to field=Destination | |
| 3 | keep | past | Iwanich | a cord round field | Iwanich's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme in hand=Location |
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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