The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 62
At these words the king hastened back to the stable, and brought out the lean horse who travelled quicker than thought.
Who acts: king, lean horse · What happens: hasten back, bring out, travel · To what, where: king, stable, lean horse, words
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lean 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brought | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 king | acl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 hastened | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stable | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stable | det |
| 10 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hastened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 brought | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 16 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 travelled | nsubj |
| 19 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 horse | acl:relcl |
| 20 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 travelled | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 thought | case |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 quicker | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten back | participle | the king not said here | the stable | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stable=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bring out | past | the king | the lean horse | this words | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 3 | travel | past | the lean horse | quick property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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