The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 103
When evening came he led the mare out of the stable and mounted her, and the colt ran behind.
Who acts: evening, prince, colt · What happens: come, lead, mount, run behind · To what, where: mare, stable
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, prince, colt), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mare | det |
| 7 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stable | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stable | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stable | det |
| 11 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mounted | cc |
| 13 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mounted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 colt | det |
| 18 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | conj |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 19 ran | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | prince | the mare | the stable | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=Theme out stable=Destination | |||
| 3 | mount | past | prince not said here | mare | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run behind | past | the colt | behind property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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