The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 87
The prince mounted his horse, and rode on all day without stopping once.
Who acts: prince · What happens: mount, stop · To what, where: horse
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 | _ | 8 rode | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 8 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | nmod |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 stopping | mark |
| 13 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 mounted | advcl |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 stopping | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the prince | prince's horse | rode on all day obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | stop | gerund | the prince not said here | once property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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