The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 20
The horse no sooner recognized his master, than it neighed loudly with joy, and springing towards him, it stood as if rooted to the ground, while Prince Milan and Hyacinthia jumped on its back.
Who acts: horse, master, Prince Milan · What happens: recognize, neigh, spring, stand, root, jump · To what, where: master, back
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 (horse, master, Prince 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recognized | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 recognized | advmod |
| 5 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recognized | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 neighed | punct |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 neighed | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 neighed | nsubj |
| 11 | neighed | neigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognized | conj |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 neighed | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neighed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stood | cc |
| 17 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 stood | advcl |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 springing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 springing | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognized | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 rooted | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 rooted | mark |
| 25 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 stood | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 ground | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ground | det |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rooted | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 jumped | punct |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 jumped | mark |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Milan | compound |
| 32 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 jumped | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Hyacinthia | cc |
| 34 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Milan | conj |
| 35 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stood | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 back | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 back | nmod:poss |
| 38 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 jumped | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | the horse | horse's master | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | neigh | past | master | with joy; loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spring | gerund | master not said here | towards horse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | master | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | root | participle | master not said here | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | jump | past | Prince Milan and Hyacinthia | master's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
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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