The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 18
The horses advanced slowly and mournfully, with their heads bent on the ground.
Who acts: horses · What happens: advance, bend · To what, where: heads, ground
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 horses | det |
| 2 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 advanced | nsubj |
| 3 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 advanced | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mournfully | cc |
| 6 | mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 4 slowly | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heads | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 advanced | obl |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 heads | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bent | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | the horses | with horses's heads; slowly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bend | participle | horses's heads not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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