The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 91
Neither man nor horse woke till the coach was seen vanishing away in the distance.
Who acts: man, coach · What happens: wake, see, vanish away · To what, where: coach
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, coach), 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 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 horse | cc |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | conj |
| 5 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coach | det |
| 8 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 woke | ccomp |
| 11 | vanishing | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seen | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 vanishing | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vanishing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | neither man nor horse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the coach | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | vanish away | gerund | the coach not said here | in the distance; away 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 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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