The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 149
So he took leave of her, and put the halter round his horse’s neck and led him into the forest, where he rubbed him down till his skin was shining like gold.
Who acts: prince, skin · What happens: take, put, lead, rub down, shine · To what, where: leave, halter, prince, forest, snare
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 (prince, skin), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 halter | det |
| 11 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 led | cc |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 led | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rubbed | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 rubbed | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rubbed | nsubj |
| 26 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rubbed | obj |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 shining | mark |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 skin | nmod:poss |
| 31 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shining | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shining | aux |
| 33 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 rubbed | advcl |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 gold | case |
| 35 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shining | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | prince | leave of woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | prince not said here | the halter | round prince's horse's neck | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent halter=Goal | |||
| 3 | lead | past | prince not said here | prince | the forest | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into forest=Destination | |||
| 4 | rub down | past | prince | snare | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | shine | past · progressive | prince's skin | like gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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