The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 100
Seeing a stranger on horseback, he asked what brought him there and where he was going.
Who acts: loss · What happens: see, ask, bring, go · To what, where: stranger, horseback, loss · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loss), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 horseback | case |
| 5 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 brought | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 going | cc |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 going | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 brought | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | loss not said here | a stranger | horseback | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | loss | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | loss | there | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | loss | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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