The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 106
The breath froze in his mouth, but he took no notice, only bade his horse ride on the faster.
Who acts: breath, Petru · What happens: freeze, take, ride · To what, where: mouth, notice, faster
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (breath, 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 breath | det |
| 2 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 froze | nsubj |
| 3 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mouth | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 froze | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 froze | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 notice | det |
| 12 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bade | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 bade | advmod |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 notice | appos |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ride | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ride | compound |
| 18 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 faster | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 faster | det |
| 21 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 took | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 froze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past | the breath | Petru's mouth | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Petru | no notice | the faster | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument notice=Theme ride=Destination | |||
| 3 | ride | Petru | nom ride «act 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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