The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 32
One morning the eldest of the three princes mounted his horse and set out for a neighbouring forest, where wild animals of all sorts were to be found.
Who acts: eldest · What happens: mount, set out, neighbour, find · To what, where: horse, wild animals
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 (eldest), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounted | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eldest | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 mounted | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 princes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princes | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 princes | nummod |
| 8 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eldest | obl |
| 9 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounted | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mounted | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 17 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 forest | amod |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 found | advmod |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 animals | amod |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 found | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sorts | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 sorts | det |
| 25 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 animals | nmod |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | aux:pass |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 found | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 found | aux:pass |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 forest | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the eldest | man's horse | morning | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | set out | past | the eldest not said here | for a neighbouring forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | the eldest not said here | wild animals of all sorts | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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