The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 47
Iwanich thanked the old witch, mounted his foal, put spurs to its sides, and they flew like lightning through the air.
Who acts: Iwanich, spurs · What happens: thank, mount, put, fly · To what, where: old witch, foal, spurs, air
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich, spurs), 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 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witch | amod |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mounted | punct |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foal | nmod:poss |
| 9 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mounted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mounted | conj |
| 12 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sides | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sides | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 lightning | case |
| 21 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Iwanich | the old witch | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | Iwanich's foal | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | spurs | to ground's sides | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | spurs = spur | the air | like lightning | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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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