The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 71
With a bound she was in the saddle, and seizing the reins bade Sunlight take her home as fast as his legs could carry him.
Who acts: princess, seizing, legs · What happens: be, seize, take, carry · To what, where: saddle, reins bade, home, Sunlight
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, seizing, legs), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 bound | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bound | det |
| 3 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saddle | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saddle | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saddle | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 saddle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 saddle | det |
| 8 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 11 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 take | csubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bade | det |
| 13 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bade | compound |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seizing | obj |
| 15 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bade | appos |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saddle | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 fast | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 take | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 carry | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 legs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 carry | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 carry | aux |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fast | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carry | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saddle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princess | the saddle | with a bound | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seize | gerund | the reins bade | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | seizing | princess's home | fast property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry | could | Sunlight's legs | Sunlight | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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