The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 6
But when he had ridden round, instead of dismounting, he suddenly turned the horse’s head and galloped away.
Who acts: man · What happens: ride, dismount, turn, gallop away · To what, where: head
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 (man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ridden | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ridden | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ridden | aux |
| 5 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 turned | advcl |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 ridden | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dismounting | punct |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 dismounting | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | dismounting | dismount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ridden | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ridden | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 galloped | cc |
| 20 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turned | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 galloped | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | man | round property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dismount | gerund | man not said here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | man | the horse's head | suddenly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 4 | gallop away | past | man not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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