The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 47
They went down into the courtyard, where two horses were waiting, one loaded with the two trunks, the other for him to ride.
Who acts: heaps, two horses · What happens: go down, wait, load, ride · To what, where: courtyard, one
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaps, two horses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 courtyard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courtyard | det |
| 6 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waiting | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 waiting | advmod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | nummod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 waiting | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 waiting | aux |
| 12 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 waiting | obl |
| 15 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 one | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 trunks | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trunks | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 trunks | nummod |
| 19 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 loaded | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 other | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | parataxis |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waiting | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 ride | mark |
| 26 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 waiting | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | heaps = heap | the courtyard | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | wait | past · progressive | two horses | one | for father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | load | participle | with the two trunks | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with trunk=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride | to-infinitive | two horses not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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