The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 115
He could do nothing but remount his horse and ride to an inn.
Who acts: master · What happens: do, remount · To what, where: nothing, horse
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 (master), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 remount | cc |
| 6 | remount | remount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 do | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remount | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ride | cc |
| 10 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 inn | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 inn | det |
| 13 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remount | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | master | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remount | infinitive | master not said here | master's horse and ride | to a inn | tree rules |
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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