The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 104

They both mounted richly caparisoned horses and rode across the plain at the head of their followers.

Who acts: arms · What happens: mount, caparison, ride · To what, where: caparisoned horses, plain

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mounted	nsubj
2	both	both	ADV	_	3 mounted	advmod
3	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	richly	richly	ADV	_	5 caparisoned	advmod
5	caparisoned	caparison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 horses	amod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mounted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rode	cc
8	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plain	det
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rode	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rode	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 followers	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 followers	nmod:poss
17	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 head	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mount	past	arms = arm	caparisoned horses		both property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	caparison	participle				richly property	tree rules
3	ride	past	arms = arm not said here		the plain	at the head of arms's followers	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across plain=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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