The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 20
Next day they mounted the two horses and rode home again, visiting their friends the brown otter and the hoary hawk and the slim yellow dog by the way.
Who acts: king · What happens: mount, ride, visit · To what, where: two horses, friends
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horses | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 horses | nummod |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mounted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 rode | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 rode | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 visiting | punct |
| 13 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rode | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 visiting | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 otter | det |
| 17 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 otter | amod |
| 18 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visiting | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hawk | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hawk | det |
| 21 | hoary | hoary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hawk | amod |
| 22 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 otter | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dog | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dog | det |
| 25 | slim | slim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dog | amod |
| 26 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dog | amod |
| 27 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 otter | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visiting | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | king | the two horses | day | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride | past | king not said here | again | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | visit | gerund | king not said here | king's friends | by the way | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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