The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 111
When he reached Alexandria he rode up to his old master’s door.
Who acts: midst · What happens: reach, ride up · To what, where: Alexandria, door
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midst), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rode | advcl |
| 4 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 rode | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 master | amod |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 master | case |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | midst | Alexandria | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent alexandria=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride up | past | midst | midst's old master's door | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to door=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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