The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 61
He ordered his swiftest horse to be saddled, mounted, and rode off alone into a forest at some little distance.
Who acts: king · What happens: order, saddle, mount, ride off · To what, where: swiftest horse, forest
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 (king), 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 | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 saddled | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saddled | aux:pass |
| 8 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mounted | punct |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 saddled | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rode | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rode | cc |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 rode | compound:prt |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 rode | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 distance | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 distance | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 distance | amod |
| 22 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | king | king's swiftest horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | saddle | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | |||||
| 3 | mount | participle | king not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride off | past | king not said here | a forest | at some little distance; alone property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=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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