The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 94
The swallows flew away, and the Prince rode on to the bridge.
Who acts: swallows, Prince · What happens: fly away, ride on · To what, where: 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 (swallows, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swallows | det |
| 2 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rode | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bridge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bridge | det |
| 13 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the swallows | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride on | past | the Prince | the bridge | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to bridge=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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