The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 105
He jumped up in terror, but the mare was nowhere to be seen, and he started with a beating heart in search of her.
Who acts: colt · What happens: jump up, see, start, search · To what, where: terror, mare
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 terror | case |
| 5 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mare | det |
| 9 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seen | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jumped | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 started | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 started | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 started | nsubj |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 heart | det |
| 21 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heart | compound |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 started | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 search | case |
| 24 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heart | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 search | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | colt | terror | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the mare | nowhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | start | past | colt | with a beating heart in search of mare | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with heart=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | search | mare | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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