More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 121
He rode and he rode to town and castle, and made all the ladies try to put on the shoe.
Who acts: Prince, ladies · What happens: ride, make, try, put · To what, where: town, shoe
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, ladies), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rode | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 castle | cc |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 town | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ladies | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ladies | det |
| 15 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 try | nsubj |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 try | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 shoe | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shoe | det |
| 21 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | Prince | town and castle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to town=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | try | present | all ladies | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | all ladies not said here | the shoe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination |
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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