The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 65
The horse neighed and reared at the horrible sight, and Petru could not use the sword he had in readiness.
Who acts: horse, Petru · What happens: neigh, rear, not use, have · To what, where: horrible sight, sword, readiness
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 (horse, Petru), 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 | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 neighed | nsubj |
| 3 | neighed | neigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 reared | cc |
| 5 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 neighed | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 8 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sight | amod |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 use | cc |
| 12 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 use | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 use | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 use | advmod |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 neighed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sword | det |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sword | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 readiness | case |
| 21 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 neighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neigh | participle | the horse | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rear | participle | the horse not said here | the horrible sight | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not use | could | Petru | the sword | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Petru | the sword not said here | readiness | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
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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