The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 52
The horse on which the Prince and the maiden were riding had just reached the middle when the magic ball flew by.
Who acts: Prince, magic ball · What happens: ride, reach, fly by · To what, where: horse
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, magic ball), 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 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 riding | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 riding | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 maiden | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 riding | aux |
| 11 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 horse | acl |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reached | aux |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 reached | advmod |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 middle | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 flew | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ball | det |
| 19 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ball | compound |
| 20 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flew | nsubj |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reached | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 flew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · progressive | the Prince and the maiden | on the horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary middle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly by | past | the magic ball | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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