The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 145
“Do you see that troop of horsemen who are riding along the road?
Who acts: you, horsemen · What happens: see, ride · To what, where: troop, road
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horsemen), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 troop | det |
| 6 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 horsemen | case |
| 8 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 troop | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 riding | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 riding | aux |
| 11 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 horsemen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 riding | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | that troop of horsemen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ride in a quote | present · progressive | horsemen | the road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along road=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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