More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 97
And long they rode, and hard they rode, till they came in sight of a very big and bonny castle. "
Who acts: long, daughters · What happens: ride, come, sight · To what, where: sight, big castle
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long, daughters), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rode | cc |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hard | cc |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rode | xcomp |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hard | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 big | advmod |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 castle | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bonny | cc |
| 21 | bonny | bonny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 big | conj |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sight | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | long | hard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | daughters = daughter | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | daughters = daughter | sight of a big castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 4 | sight | a big castle | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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