The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 30
That stupid horse is crushing my people mercilessly to death with his great hoofs.’
Who acts: stupid horse · What happens: crush · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stupid horse), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crushing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crushing | aux |
| 5 | crushing | crush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 people | nmod:poss |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crushing | obj |
| 8 | mercilessly | mercilessly | ADV | _ | 5 crushing | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mercilessly | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hoofs | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hoofs | amod |
| 14 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crushing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crushing | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 crushing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | present · progressive | that stupid horse | my people | with haste's great hoofs; mercilessly property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with hoof=Instrument |
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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