The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 74
Then Hans reined up his horse, took his knapsack, and jumped out of the sledge.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: rein up, take, jump out · To what, where: horse, knapsack, sledge
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 reined | advmod |
| 2 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reined | nsubj |
| 3 | reined | rein | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 reined | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reined | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reined | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 10 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jumped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jumped | cc |
| 13 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 sledge | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sledge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sledge | det |
| 17 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jumped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rein up | past | Hans | Hans's horse | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | Hans's knapsack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jump out | past | the sledge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sledge=Trajectory |
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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