The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 76
He at once rode to the hut, and found the two maidens at the fountain.
Who acts: prince · What happens: ride, find · To what, where: hut, two maidens, fountain
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 rode | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 rode | advmod |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hut | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maidens | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 maidens | nummod |
| 13 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 fountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fountain | det |
| 16 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | prince | the hut | once property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hut=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | find | past | prince not said here | the two maidens | the fountain | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme at fountain=Asset |
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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