The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 21

She rode proudly before them, dressed in uniform; but they had not left the town more than a mile behind them, when they met the lad and his little sword.

Who acts: princess, troops · What happens: ride, dress, not leave, meet · To what, where: uniform, town, lad

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, troops), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	2 rode	advmod
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dressed	punct
7	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rode	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 uniform	case
9	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dressed	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 left	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 left	advmod
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 rode	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 town	det
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 left	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 mile	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mile	det
21	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 more	obl
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 mile	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 met	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 met	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 met	nsubj
27	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lad	det
29	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 met	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sword	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sword	nmod:poss
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sword	amod
33	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lad	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	princess			before troops	proudly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	dress	participle	princess not said here		uniform			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not leave	past · perfect	troops	the town				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
4	meet	past	troops	the lad and youth's little sword				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Co-Agent

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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