The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 5
It was still starlight when she left the palace on a snow-white donkey, and rode away from the river straight to the west.
Who acts: way, princess, starlight · What happens: be, leave, ride away · To what, where: starlight, palace, river
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, princess, starlight), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 starlight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 starlight | cop |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 starlight | advmod |
| 4 | starlight | starlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 left | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 starlight | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 donkey | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 donkey | det |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 white | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 snow | punct |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 donkey | amod |
| 15 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rode | cc |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 starlight | acl:relcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 rode | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 river | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 23 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 26 west | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 west | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 west | det |
| 26 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 starlight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | way | starlight | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past | princess | the palace | on a white donkey | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent palace=Theme on donkey=Location | |||
| 3 | ride away | past | starlight not said here | the river | to the west; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from 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 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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