Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 142
The Cossack, on his small horse, rides lightly o'er the plains; but lighter still passed the prince on the winds of the wind.
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: ride, pass, wind · To what, where: prince, winds, wind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cossack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cossack | det |
| 2 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rides | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 horse | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horse | amod |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cossack | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cossack | punct |
| 9 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 9 rides | advmod |
| 11 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 13 plains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plains | det |
| 13 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rides | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 passed | cc |
| 16 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 passed | advmod |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 passed | advmod |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rides | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 winds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 winds | det |
| 23 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 passed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wind | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 winds | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | the Cossack and eagle's small horse | o'er the plains; lightly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | the Cossack and eagle's small horse not said here | the prince | the winds of the wind | still | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent prince=Theme on wind=Destination | ||
| 3 | wind | the wind | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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