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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 104

He had ridden back along a winding road from which he did not see the palace till he was close upon it, and stood horrified at the spectacle before him.

Who acts: man · What happens: ride back, wind, not see, be, horrify · To what, where: winding road, palace, spectacle

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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

nsubjauxadvmodcasedetamodoblcaseoblnsubjauxadvmodacl:relcldetobjmarknsubjcopccompcaseoblpunctccaux:passconjcasedetoblcaseoblpunctrootHePRONhadAUXriddenVERBbackADValongADPaDETwindingVERBroadNOUNfromADPwhichPRONhePRONdidAUXnotPARTseeVERBtheDETpalaceNOUNtillSCONJhePRONwasAUXcloseADJuponADPitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJstoodVERBhorrifiedVERBatADPtheDETspectacleNOUNbeforeADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 riddennsubj
2hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 riddenaux
3riddenrideVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
4backbackADV_3 riddenadvmod
5alongalongADP_8 roadcase
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 roaddet
7windingwindVERBVerbForm=Ger8 roadamod
8roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing3 riddenobl
9fromfromADP_10 whichcase
10whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel14 seeobl
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 seensubj
12diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 seeaux
13notnotPARTPolarity=Neg14 seeadvmod
14seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf8 roadacl:relcl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 palacedet
16palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing14 seeobj
17tilltillSCONJ_20 closemark
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 closensubj
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 closecop
20closecloseADJDegree=Pos14 seeccomp
21uponuponADP_22 itcase
22ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 closeobl
23,,PUNCT_26 horrifiedpunct
24andandCCONJ_26 horrifiedcc
25stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 horrifiedaux:pass
26horrifiedhorrifyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 riddenconj
27atatADP_29 spectaclecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 spectacledet
29spectaclespectacleNOUNNumber=Sing26 horrifiedobl
30beforebeforeADP_31 himcase
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 horrifiedobl
32..PUNCT_3 riddenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ride backpast · perfectmana winding roadvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along road=Trajectory
2windgerundvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3not seepast · do-supportmanthe palacea winding roadvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
4ispastmanupon palace; close propertytree rules
5horrifypast · passiveman not said herethe spectaclebefore manvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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