The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 68

Jose thanked him, and vaulting on his horse they rode on to the river.

Who acts: Jose, spirits · What happens: thank, vault, ride on · To what, where: eagle, horse, river

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 (Jose, spirits), 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	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 vaulting	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 vaulting	cc
6	vaulting	vault	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thanked	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vaulting	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rode	nsubj
11	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 horse	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 rode	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rode	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Jose		eagle			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	vault	gerund	Jose not said here				on eagle's horse	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory
3	ride on	past	spirits = spirit	eagle's horse not said here		the river		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to river=Trajectory

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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