The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 129
The prince had hardly arrived at home when some thieves tried to ford the stream with a fine horse they had stolen.
Who acts: thieves, fine horse · What happens: arrive, try, ford, steal · To what, where: prince, home, stream
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves, fine horse), 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 | 5 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 tried | advmod |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 thieves | det |
| 10 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tried | nsubj |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ford | mark |
| 13 | ford | ford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ford | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 horse | amod |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ford | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stolen | aux |
| 22 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 horse | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | the prince | home | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | past | some thieves | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ford not said to happen | to-infinitive | some thieves not said here | the stream | with a fine horse | tree rules | |||
| 4 | steal | past · perfect · passive | a fine horse not said here | prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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: «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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