More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 124

The ambassador rode on and on till he came at the very last to the house where there were the three ugly sisters.

Who acts: ambassador, many, three ugly sisters · What happens: ride, come, be · To what, where: last

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 (ambassador, many, three ugly sisters), 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 ambassador	det
2	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 on	cc
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 on	conj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 last	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 last	advmod
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 last	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 were	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 house	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sisters	det
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sisters	nummod
22	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sisters	amod
23	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 were	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	ride	past	the ambassador		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	many	the last	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	be	past	the three ugly sisters	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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