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The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 13

Suddenly a frightful thirst seized the King, and as he saw no water near, he mounted his horse, and rode through the neighbourhood looking for a spring.

Who acts: frightful thirst, KING · What happens: seize, see, mount, ride, look · To what, where: King, water, horse, neighbourhood

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frightful thirst, KING), 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

advmoddetamodnsubjdetobjpunctccmarknsubjconjdetobjadvmodpunctnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctccconjcasedetobladvclcasedetoblpunctrootSuddenlyADVaDETfrightfulADJthirstNOUNseizedVERBtheDETKingPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJhePRONsawVERBnoDETwaterNOUNnearADV,PUNCThePRONmountedVERBhisPRONhorseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJrodeVERBthroughADPtheDETneighbourhoodNOUNlookingVERBforADPaDETspringNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SuddenlysuddenlyADV_5 seizedadvmod
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 thirstdet
3frightfulfrightfulADJDegree=Pos4 thirstamod
4thirstthirstNOUNNumber=Sing5 seizednsubj
5seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Kingdet
7KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing5 seizedobj
8,,PUNCT_12 sawpunct
9andandCCONJ_12 sawcc
10asasSCONJ_12 sawmark
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 sawnsubj
12sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 seizedconj
13nonoDETPronType=Neg14 waterdet
14waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing12 sawobj
15nearnearADV_12 sawadvmod
16,,PUNCT_18 mountedpunct
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 mountednsubj
18mountedmountVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 seizedconj
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 horsenmod:poss
20horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing18 mountedobj
21,,PUNCT_23 rodepunct
22andandCCONJ_23 rodecc
23roderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 seizedconj
24throughthroughADP_26 neighbourhoodcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 neighbourhooddet
26neighbourhoodneighbourhoodNOUNNumber=Sing23 rodeobl
27lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 rodeadvcl
28forforADP_30 springcase
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 springdet
30springspringNOUNNumber=Sing27 lookingobl
31..PUNCT_5 seizedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seizepasta frightful thirstthe Kingsuddenly propertyvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
2seepastKINGno waternear propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
3mountpastKINGKING's horsevn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4ridepasta frightful thirst not said herethe neighbourhoodvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through neighbourhood=Trajectory
5lookgerunda frightful thirst not said herespringvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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