The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 106
And even as he spoke there flashed past him a huge lioness, followed by a lady and a beautiful young maid mounted on fairy horses.
What happens: flash, follow, mount · To what, where: huge lioness, beautiful young maid
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flashed | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 spoke | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flashed | aux:pass |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 7 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | past | past | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flashed | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lioness | det |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lioness | amod |
| 12 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flashed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lioness | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 lady | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 maid | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 maid | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maid | amod |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maid | amod |
| 22 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lady | conj |
| 23 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 maid | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 horses | case |
| 25 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 horses | compound |
| 26 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 mounted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past · passive | a huge lioness | past ring | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: lioness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | a huge lioness not said here | by a lady and a beautiful young maid | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by lady=Location | ||||
| 3 | mount | participle | a beautiful young maid not said here | on fairy horses | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horse=Destination |
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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