The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 15
Prince Almas immediately started; he rode till he came to the parting of the ways.
Who acts: Prince, ways · What happens: start, ride, come, part · To what, where: parting
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, ways), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 2 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rode | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 parting | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 parting | det |
| 13 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ways | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ways | det |
| 16 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 parting | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Prince | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | prince | the parting of the ways | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | part | the ways | nom parting «act intransitive»: of=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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