The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 51
After a month Costan began to haunt the stables and to look out a horse for himself.
Who acts: Costan · What happens: begin, haunt, look out · To what, where: stables, horse
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Costan), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 month | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 month | det |
| 3 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 4 | Costan | Costan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 haunt | mark |
| 7 | haunt | haunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stables | det |
| 9 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 haunt | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 look | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 haunt | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 look | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 look | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Costan | month | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | haunt | to-infinitive | Costan not said here | the stables | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stable=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | look out | to-infinitive | Costan not said here | a horse | for Costan | tree rules |
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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