The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 151

The empress had been looking for him night and day, and stole out to meet him, and he swung her on to his saddle, and the horse flew off again.

Who acts: empress, skin, horse · What happens: look, steal out, meet, swing on, fly off · To what, where: skin, empress, saddle

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 (empress, skin, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 empress	det
2	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 looking	aux
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 night	compound
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 day	cc
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stole	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stole	cc
13	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 stole	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 meet	mark
16	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stole	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meet	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swung	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swung	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 swung	nsubj
21	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 swung	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	21 swung	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 saddle	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 saddle	nmod:poss
26	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swung	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flew	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flew	nsubj
31	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 swung	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 flew	compound:prt
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 flew	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	look	past · perfect · progressive	the empress			night	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	steal out	past					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	to-infinitive		skin			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	swing on	past	skin	empress	skin's saddle		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme to saddle=Trajectory
5	fly off	past	the horse			again	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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