The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 59
So they rode to the castle of the countess of the fountain, and spent three months in resting and feasting.
Who acts: orders · What happens: ride, spend · To what, where: castle, resting
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 countess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 countess | det |
| 9 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 castle | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fountain | det |
| 12 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 countess | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spent | cc |
| 15 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 months | nummod |
| 17 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spent | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 resting | case |
| 19 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spent | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 feasting | cc |
| 21 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resting | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | orders = order | the castle of the countess of the fountain | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | spend | past | orders = order not said here | resting and feasting | month | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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 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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