The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 127
As he rode through the opening he threw the cakes behind him.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: ride, throw · To what, where: opening, cakes
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 rode | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 opening | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 opening | det |
| 6 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opening | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cakes | det |
| 10 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 threw | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cakes | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Peter | the opening | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through opening=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Peter | the cakes | behind sun | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cake=Theme behind he=Destination |
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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