The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 38
That same evening the gardener’s son rode up to the fountain upon his lame gray horse.
Who acts: same evening · What happens: ride up · To what, where: fountain
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 (same evening), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardener | det |
| 5 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 gardener | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | nmod |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 rode | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fountain | det |
| 12 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 16 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | that same evening the gardener's son | the fountain | upon son's lame gray horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to fountain=Trajectory |
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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