The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 28
These he secured by a silken rope to his own horse, and then looked about for the cypress tree.
Who acts: silken rope · What happens: secure, look · To what, where: These
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silken rope), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 secured | nsubj |
| 3 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 rope | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 6 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rope | amod |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 secured | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 horse | amod |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rope | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 looked | advmod |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 secured | parataxis |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 looked | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 19 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | participle · passive | a silken rope to man's own horse | These | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | then | for the cypress tree; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tree=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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