The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 114
The bridle fell from her hand: and the sword which she had just grasped slid back into its sheath, but the horse bade her fear nothing, and with a mighty effort she sat upright and spurred straight on the dragon.
Who acts: bridle, sword, fear, bade · What happens: fall, grasp, slide back, sit, spur, fear · To what, where: nothing, hand, sword, sheath
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (bridle, sword, fear, bade), 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 bridle | det |
| 2 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 slid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slid | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slid | nsubj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 grasped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grasped | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grasped | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 grasped | advmod |
| 15 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sword | acl:relcl |
| 16 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 slid | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 sheath | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nothing | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 nothing | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bade | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bade | compound |
| 25 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nothing | nsubj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fear | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nothing | nsubj |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 fell | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sat | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sat | cc |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 effort | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 effort | det |
| 33 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 effort | amod |
| 34 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sat | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sat | nsubj |
| 36 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 37 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 36 sat | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 spurred | cc |
| 39 | spurred | spur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 sat | conj |
| 40 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 43 dragon | advmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 dragon | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 dragon | det |
| 43 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spurred | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the bridle | nothing | bridle's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grasp | past · perfect · passive | the sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | slide back | past | the sword | sword's sheath | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sheath=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | fear | with a mighty effort; upright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | spur | participle | fear not said here | on the dragon | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fear | bade | nom fear «feeling 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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