The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 20
The white horse sighed deeply when it heard this, and made up its mind to be content with what it had eaten.
Who acts: white horse, strap · What happens: sigh, hear, make up, be, eat, mind · To what, where: this, mind, strap
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (white horse, strap), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sighed | nsubj |
| 4 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 4 sighed | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 heard | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sighed | advcl |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sighed | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 made | compound:prt |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 content | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 content | cop |
| 18 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 content | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 eaten | aux |
| 23 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the white horse | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | strap | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make up | participle | strap's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | content property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | eat | past · perfect · passive | strap | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | mind | strap | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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