The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 72
At this the Red Knight, the young prince, and several more turned their horses to ride as fast as the wind back to the palace.
What happens: turn, ride · To what, where: horses
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 Knight | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Knight | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Knight | det |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Knight | flat |
| 5 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prince | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prince | amod |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Knight | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 more | amod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 turned | advmod |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 prince | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horses | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turned | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ride | mark |
| 18 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turned | advcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 fast | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 ride | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 wind | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fast | obl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 wind | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | wars's horses | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme horse=Result | |||||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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