The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 47
Joyfully the young man sprang into the saddle and rode away to the banks of the river.
Who acts: young man · What happens: spring, ride away · To what, where: saddle, banks
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (young man), 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 | Joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 5 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 saddle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 saddle | det |
| 8 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 banks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 banks | det |
| 14 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rode | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 river | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 banks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the young man | the saddle | joyfully property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into saddle=Destination | |||
| 2 | ride away | past | the young man not said here | the banks of the river | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to bank=Trajectory |
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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