The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 35
Then they two went together to the place where Ian had left the dead horse; but no horse was there now, only a beautiful maiden.
Who acts: spells, Ian, horse · What happens: go together, leave, be · To what, where: place, dead horse
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spells, Ian, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 they | appos |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 left | advmod |
| 10 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horse | amod |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 there | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 there | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 horse | det |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 there | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 there | cop |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | parataxis |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 there | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 maiden | punct |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 maiden | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 maiden | det |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 maiden | amod |
| 27 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 there | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | past | spells = spell | the place | then | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Ian | the dead horse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | no horse | now | there property | tree rules |
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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