The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 107
Without pausing for a moment, Milan and Hyacinthia mounted him and galloped as fast as they could into the country of King Kojata.
Who acts: Milan · What happens: pause, mount, gallop · To what, where: Hyacinthia, country
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Milan), 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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 pausing | mark |
| 2 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 mounted | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pausing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pausing | punct |
| 7 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Hyacinthia | cc |
| 9 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Milan | conj |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mounted | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 galloped | cc |
| 13 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mounted | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 galloped | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fast | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 galloped | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 country | nmod |
| 24 | Kojata | Kojata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 King | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | gerund | Milan and Hyacinthia not said here | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | Milan and Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | gallop | past | Milan and Hyacinthia not said here | the country of King | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination |
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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