The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 72
So, turning his horse's head, he rode slowly back to his palace.
Who acts: Deer · What happens: turn, ride · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deer), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rode | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turning | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Deer not said here | Deer's horse's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | Deer | slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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 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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