The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 33
Milan sprang from the saddle, put his ear to the ground and listened.
Who acts: Milan · What happens: spring, put, listen · To what, where: saddle, ear
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 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 saddle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 saddle | det |
| 5 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sprang | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 listened | cc |
| 14 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | Milan | the saddle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from saddle=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Milan not said here | Milan's ear | to the ground | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal | |||
| 3 | listen | past | Milan not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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