English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 29
The prince went to the stable, saddled his horse, called his hound, jumped into the saddle, and Kate leapt lightly up behind him.
Who acts: prince, Kate · What happens: go, saddle, call, jump, leapt · To what, where: stable, horse, hound, saddle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Kate), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 stable | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stable | det |
| 6 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saddled | punct |
| 8 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saddled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 horse | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hound | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jumped | punct |
| 16 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saddled | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 saddle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 saddle | det |
| 19 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jumped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leapt | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leapt | cc |
| 22 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 leapt | nsubj |
| 23 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 24 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 25 up | advmod |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 leapt | advmod |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leapt | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the prince | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | saddle | past | prince's horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | prince's horse not said here | prince's hound | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hound=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | jump | past | the saddle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into saddle=Destination | |||||
| 5 | leapt | present | Kate | behind prince | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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