The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 53

She had a fine fresh turnip hidden close at hand, which she changed into a spirited horse, all saddled and bridled, and, springing upon its back, she galloped away over hill and dale till she reached the Thorny Valley, and flung herself into the arms of her beloved Prince Ratibor.

Who acts: pretty, hand · What happens: have, hide, change, saddle, bridle, spring · To what, where: fine fresh turnip, hand, back, hill, Thorny Valley, pretty

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (pretty, hand), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 turnip	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turnip	amod
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turnip	amod
6	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 turnip	acl
8	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 hidden	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 hand	case
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hidden	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 changed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 changed	nsubj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 changed	nsubj
14	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hand	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 horse	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 horse	det
17	spirited	spirited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 horse	amod
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 changed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saddled	punct
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 saddled	advmod
21	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 changed	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bridled	cc
23	bridled	bridle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saddled	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 springing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 springing	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 springing	punct
27	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 bridled	advcl
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 back	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 back	nmod:poss
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 springing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 galloped	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 galloped	nsubj
33	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saddled	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 galloped	advmod
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 hill	case
36	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 galloped	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dale	cc
38	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hill	conj
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 reached	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 reached	nsubj
41	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 galloped	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Valley	det
43	Thorny	Thorny	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Valley	compound
44	Valley	Valley	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 reached	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 flung	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 flung	cc
47	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
48	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 flung	obj
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 arms	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 arms	det
51	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 flung	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	56 Ratibor	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 Ratibor	nmod:poss
54	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 Ratibor	amod
55	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Ratibor	nmod:desc
56	Ratibor	Ratibor	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 arms	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	pretty	a fine fresh turnip			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turnip=Patient
2	hide	participle		a fine fresh turnip not said here	hand	close property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at hand=Location
3	change	past	hand			into a spirited horse result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into horse=Result
4	saddle	past	hand not said here			all property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	bridle	past	hand not said here				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	spring	gerund	hand not said here		hand's back		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon back=Trajectory
7	gallop away	past	pretty		hill and dale	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory
8	reach	past	pretty	the Thorny Valley			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent valley=Theme
9	fling	past	pretty not said here	pretty	the arms of pretty's beloved Ratibor Prince		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into arm=Destination

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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