Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 19
Then he mounted his horse, and with a great train of servants set out for London.
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: mount, set out · To what, where: horse, servants
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 train | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 train | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 train | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 train | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 train | amod |
| 11 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 servants | case |
| 13 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 train | nmod |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 servants | acl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 London | case |
| 17 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | shepherd | shepherd's horse | then | with a great train of servants | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with train=Instrument | ||
| 2 | set out | participle | servants not said here | for London | vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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