More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 74
Soon there came riding by the Elfin court, first over the mound went a troop on black steeds, and then another troop on brown.
Who acts: mound · What happens: come, ride, go · To what, where: troop, black steeds
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 (mound), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 7 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 court | compound |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 riding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 went | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mound | det |
| 13 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 troop | det |
| 16 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 steeds | case |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 steeds | amod |
| 19 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 troop | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 troop | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 troop | advmod |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 troop | det |
| 24 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 brown | case |
| 26 | brown | brown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 troop | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | another troop on brown | there | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride | gerund | by the Elfin court | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the mound | a troop | black steeds | first property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location troop=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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