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The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 31

The two suitors left the town together, but the minister’s son went off at a gallop on his good horse, and very soon was lost to sight behind the most distant hills.

Who acts: two suitors, son · What happens: leave, go off, lose · To what, where: town, gallop, distant hills

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two suitors, son), 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

detnummodnsubjdetobjadvmodpunctccdetnmod:posscasensubjconjcompound:prtcasedetoblcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccadvmodadvmodaux:passconjcaseoblcasedetadvmodamodoblpunctrootTheDETtwoNUMsuitorsNOUNleftVERBtheDETtownNOUNtogetherADV,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETministerNOUN’sPARTsonNOUNwentVERBoffADPatADPaDETgallopNOUNonADPhisPRONgoodADJhorseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJveryADVsoonADVwasAUXlostVERBtoADPsightNOUNbehindADPtheDETmostADVdistantADJhillsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 suitorsdet
2twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 suitorsnummod
3suitorssuitorNOUNNumber=Plur4 leftnsubj
4leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 towndet
6towntownNOUNNumber=Sing4 leftobj
7togethertogetherADV_4 leftadvmod
8,,PUNCT_14 wentpunct
9butbutCCONJ_14 wentcc
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 ministerdet
11ministerministerNOUNNumber=Sing13 sonnmod:poss
12’s'sPART_11 ministercase
13sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing14 wentnsubj
14wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 leftconj
15offoffADP_14 wentcompound:prt
16atatADP_18 gallopcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 gallopdet
18gallopgallopNOUNNumber=Sing14 wentobl
19ononADP_22 horsecase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 horsenmod:poss
21goodgoodADJDegree=Pos22 horseamod
22horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing14 wentobl
23,,PUNCT_28 lostpunct
24andandCCONJ_28 lostcc
25veryveryADV_26 soonadvmod
26soonsoonADVDegree=Pos28 lostadvmod
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 lostaux:pass
28lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 leftconj
29totoADP_30 sightcase
30sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing28 lostobl
31behindbehindADP_35 hillscase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 hillsdet
33mostmostADVDegree=Sup34 distantadvmod
34distantdistantADJDegree=Pos35 hillsamod
35hillshillNOUNNumber=Plur28 lostobl
36..PUNCT_4 leftpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1leavepastthe two suitorsthe towntogether propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
2go offpastthe minister's sona gallopon son's good horsevn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at gallop=Location
3losepast · passivethe two suitors not said herethe distant hillsto sight; soon propertyvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»

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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