The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 29
So he turned his horses head and rode back beside the golden thread.
Who acts: son · What happens: turn, ride back · To what, where: horses head, golden thread
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 head | compound |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 thread | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thread | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thread | amod |
| 13 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | son | son's horses head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride back | past | son not said here | the golden thread | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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