The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 51
At the same moment the foal sprang on the top of the magician and kicked and stamped on him with his hoofs till he died.
Who acts: foal · What happens: spring, kick, stamp, die · To what, where: top
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 (foal), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foal | det |
| 6 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | nsubj |
| 7 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 magician | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 magician | det |
| 13 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kicked | cc |
| 15 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sprang | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stamped | cc |
| 17 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sprang | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stamped | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hoofs | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stamped | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 died | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 died | nsubj |
| 25 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stamped | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the foal | the top of the magician | moment | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | kick | past | the foal not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | stamp | past | the foal not said here | on magician; with magician's hoofs | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hoof=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | foal | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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