The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 43
The old woman didn’t wait to be asked twice, but mounted behind him, and in this style they reached the chief city of a powerful kingdom.
Who acts: old woman, legs · What happens: not wait, ask, mount, reach · To what, where: chief city, style
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 (old woman, legs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | advmod |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 asked | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | aux:pass |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wait | advcl |
| 10 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 asked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mounted | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 mounted | cc |
| 13 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 asked | conj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mounted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reached | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 reached | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 style | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 style | det |
| 20 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 24 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 city | amod |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 kingdom | det |
| 28 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kingdom | amod |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 city | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | the old woman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive · passive | the old woman not said here | twice property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | mount | participle | the old woman not said here | behind traveler | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | legs = leg | the chief city of a powerful kingdom | this style | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
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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