The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 51
At midday the Prince and his men came to a deep river, spanned by so narrow a bridge that only one rider could cross at a time.
Who acts: Prince, one rider · What happens: come, span, cross · To what, where: midday, deep river, bridge
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 (Prince, one rider), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midday | case |
| 2 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 men | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Prince | conj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spanned | punct |
| 14 | spanned | span | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 river | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 narrow | case |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 narrow | advmod |
| 17 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spanned | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bridge | det |
| 19 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 narrow | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 cross | obj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 one | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 rider | nummod |
| 23 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cross | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 cross | aux |
| 25 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cross | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Prince and prince's men | midday | to a deep river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | span | participle | a deep river not said here | narrow property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cross | could | one rider | a bridge | time | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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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