The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 49
Then mount the colt, and let the princess mount behind you, and ride thus to your father's palace.
Who acts: you · What happens: mount, let, ride · To what, where: colt, princess mount, palace
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | 2 mount | advmod |
| 2 | mount | mount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 colt | det |
| 4 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mount | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 mount | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mount | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mount | compound |
| 10 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ride | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ride | cc |
| 15 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mount | conj |
| 16 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 ride | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ride | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mount | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | imperative | you not said here | the colt | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | the princess mount | behind you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mount=Theme | |||
| 3 | ride | present | you not said here | your father's palace | thus property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=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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