The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 87

The youngest again mounted the wooden horse, and rode back at full speed to his beloved White Cat.

Who acts: youngest · What happens: mount, ride back · To what, where: wooden horse, full speed

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest), 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	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 mounted	nsubj
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 mounted	advmod
4	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rode	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rode	cc
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mounted	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 rode	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 speed	case
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speed	amod
14	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rode	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 Cat	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Cat	nmod:poss
17	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Cat	amod
18	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Cat	amod
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rode	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	the youngest	the wooden horse			again		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	ride back	past	the youngest not said here			full speed		to horse's beloved White Cat	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to cat=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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