The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 40
And she chose the most spirited horse in the stable, with eyes of flame, and a coat of shining silver.
Who acts: heart, coat · What happens: choose, spirit, shine · To what, where: spirited horse, stable, silver
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 (heart, coat), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chose | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 spirited | advmod |
| 6 | spirited | spirit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 horse | amod |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chose | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stable | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stable | det |
| 10 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stable | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flame | case |
| 15 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 coat | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 coat | det |
| 19 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chose | obl |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 shining | mark |
| 21 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 coat | acl |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shining | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | heart | the spirited horse | the stable and eyes of flame | a coat obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||
| 2 | spirit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | a coat not said here | silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=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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