The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 30
In a moment, from the Welwa sprang a horse--the most beautiful horse in the world.
What happens: spring · To what, where: horse, Welwa
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Welwa | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Welwa | det |
| 7 | Welwa | Welwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obl |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 horse | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horse | amod |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 horse | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | a horse | the Welwa | moment | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location horse=Theme |
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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