More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 120
Then he ordered one of his ambassadors to mount a fleet horse and ride through the kingdom and find an owner for the glass shoe.
Who acts: Prince, one · What happens: order, mount, ride, find · To what, where: one, fleet horse, kingdom, owner
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ambassadors | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ambassadors | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 mount | mark |
| 9 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | compound |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mount | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ride | cc |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ride | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ride | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 owner | det |
| 21 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 shoe | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shoe | det |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shoe | compound |
| 25 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Prince | one of Prince's ambassadors | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | mount not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of Prince's ambassadors not said here | a fleet horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride | present | Prince not said here | the kingdom | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through kingdom=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | Prince not said here | a owner | for the glass shoe | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent owner=Theme for shoe=Beneficiary |
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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