The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 17
Here he found a man on horseback who was just setting out for the neighbouring village.
Who acts: messenger, man · What happens: find, set out · To what, where: man, horseback
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, man), 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 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horseback | case |
| 7 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 setting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 setting | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 setting | advmod |
| 11 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 setting | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 15 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 village | amod |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 setting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | messenger | a man | horseback; here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 2 | set out | past · progressive | a man | for the neighbouring village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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