The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 54
They rode on till they came to the ant-hill, and then the horse asked:
Who acts: things, horse · What happens: ride on, come, ask · To what, where: ant hill
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, horse), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 rode | compound:prt |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 9 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hill | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ant | punct |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 asked | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride on | past | things = thing | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | things = thing | the ant hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the horse | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP 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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