The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 92
‘Jump on the back of the brown horse,’ said the old woman, and she turned round and went into the house.
Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: say, turn round, go · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old woman, woman), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jump | punct |
| 2 | Jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 back | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jump | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jump | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 turned | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 turned | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn round | past | woman | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | woman not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location |
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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