The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 26
The princess mounted Sunlight, and touched him with her spur, when the old horse, who was galloping at her side, suddenly said:
Who acts: princess, old horse · What happens: mount, touch, gallop, say, spur · To what, where: Sunlight, visitor, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, old horse), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 touched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 touched | cc |
| 7 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 touched | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 spur | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spur | nmod:poss |
| 11 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 horse | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 horse | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | amod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spur | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 galloping | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 galloping | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 galloping | aux |
| 20 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 horse | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 galloping | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 26 said | advmod |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 galloping | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the princess | Sunlight | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | visitor | with princess's spur and the old horse | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with spur=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | gallop | past · progressive | the old horse | princess's side | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | participle | the old horse not said here | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | spur | princess | nom spur «communication 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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