The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 12

Meanwhile the two horsemen had ridden quickly back, and told the emperor all that they had seen and heard.

Who acts: horsemen · What happens: ride, tell, see, hear · To what, where: two horsemen, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horsemen), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 ridden	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horsemen	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 horsemen	nummod
4	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ridden	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ridden	aux
6	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 back	advmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 ridden	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ridden	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 emperor	det
13	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 told	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 seen	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 seen	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ridden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect · passive		the two horsemen		meanwhile property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past			the emperor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see	past · perfect	horsemen = horseman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	hear	participle	horsemen = horseman not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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