More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 126
So they rode and they rode and they rode, till they got out of the forest and found themselves at the edge of the sea.
Who acts: bones · What happens: ride, get out, find · To what, where: bones, edge
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rode | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 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 | 3 rode | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 got | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 edge | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 edge | det |
| 23 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 edge | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | bones = bone | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | bones = bone | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | bones = bone | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get out | past | bones = bone | of the forest; out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of forest=Source | ||||
| 5 | find | past | bones = bone not said here | bones = bone | the edge of the sea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at edge=Asset |
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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