The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 156
Soon the dragon’s horse was heard panting behind, and he cried out, ‘Oh, my brother, do not go so fast!
Who acts: horse, dragon · What happens: hear, pant, cry out, not go · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (horse, dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:626): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 dragon | case |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux:pass |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | panting | pant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heard | xcomp |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 8 panting | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 17 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 go | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Oh | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | vocative |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 fast | advmod |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the dragon's horse | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pant | gerund | the dragon's horse not said here | behind property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | dragon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not go | infinitive · do-support | my brother vocative; fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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