Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 49
The young king in a fright turned his horse’s head towards the road and tried to spur it into a gallop.
Who acts: young king · What happens: turn, try, spur · To what, where: head, road, gallop
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fright | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fright | det |
| 6 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obj |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tried | cc |
| 16 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 spur | mark |
| 18 | spur | spur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tried | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spur | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 gallop | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 gallop | det |
| 22 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spur | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the young king in a fright | Rupsinh's horse's head | the road | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme towards road=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | try | past | the young king in a fright not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | spur not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young king in a fright not said here | head | into a gallop result | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient into gallop=Result |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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