The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 82
The little horse allowed itself to be rubbed down without a toss of its head and without a kick.
Who acts: little horse, horse · What happens: allow, rub down, toss · To what, where: horse, head
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little horse, 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 | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | nsubj |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 allowed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rubbed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 8 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 toss | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 toss | det |
| 12 | toss | toss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rubbed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 toss | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kick | cc |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 kick | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kick | det |
| 19 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | the little horse | horse | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer itself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rub down not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | horse not said here | without a toss of horse's head and a kick | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination» | ||||
| 3 | toss | horse's head and a kick | nom toss «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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