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The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 41

When he saw the maiden he sprang from his horse, lifted her into the saddle, and then, mounting behind, rode homeward.

Who acts: troop · What happens: see, spring, lift, mount, ride · To what, where: maiden, horse, saddle, homeward

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troop), 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

advmodnsubjadvcldetobjnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possoblpunctobjcasedetoblpunctccadvmodpunctadvcladvmodpunctconjobjpunctrootWhenADVhePRONsawVERBtheDETmaidenNOUNhePRONsprangVERBfromADPhisPRONhorseNOUN,PUNCTliftedVERBherPRONintoADPtheDETsaddleNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADV,PUNCTmountingVERBbehindADV,PUNCTrodeVERBhomewardNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 sawadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 liftedadvcl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 maidendet
5maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobj
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 sprangnsubj
7sprangspringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 maidenacl:relcl
8fromfromADP_10 horsecase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 horsenmod:poss
10horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing7 sprangobl
11,,PUNCT_12 liftedpunct
12liftedliftVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 liftedobj
14intointoADP_16 saddlecase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 saddledet
16saddlesaddleNOUNNumber=Sing12 liftedobl
17,,PUNCT_21 mountingpunct
18andandCCONJ_21 mountingcc
19thenthenADVPronType=Dem21 mountingadvmod
20,,PUNCT_21 mountingpunct
21mountingmountVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 liftedadvcl
22behindbehindADV_21 mountingadvmod
23,,PUNCT_24 rodepunct
24roderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 liftedconj
25homewardhomewardNOUNNumber=Sing24 rodeobj
26..PUNCT_12 liftedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepasttroopthe maidenvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus
2springpasttroopthe maiden not said herefrom troop's horsevn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location maiden=Theme
3liftpasthorsethe saddlevn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into saddle=Destination
4mountgerundthenbehind propertyvn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
5ridepasthomewardvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=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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