The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 3
When Peter knew that he had nothing more to fear from Eisenkopf, he rode on slowly till he came to a small white house.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: know, have, fear, ride on, come · To what, where: nothing, Eisenkopf, small white house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rode | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 nothing | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fear | mark |
| 10 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Eisenkopf | case |
| 12 | Eisenkopf | Eisenkopf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fear | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rode | nsubj |
| 15 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 rode | compound:prt |
| 17 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 15 rode | advmod |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rode | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 house | amod |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 house | amod |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Peter | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fear | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | nothing not said here | Eisenkopf | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | ride on | past | Peter | slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Peter | a small white house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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