The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 35

He rode up to it, and saw a little old woman, who appeared to be at least a hundred years old.

Who acts: Prince, little old woman · What happens: ride up, see, appear, be · To what, where: horse, little old woman, old, hundred, least

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, little old woman), 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	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 rode	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 appeared	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 appeared	nsubj
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	21 hundred	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 hundred	cop
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 least	case
19	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 hundred	nmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hundred	det
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 old	obl:unmarked
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 appeared	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	ride up	past	Prince		horse		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to it=Trajectory
2	see	past	Prince not said here	a little old woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	appear	past	a little old woman	old			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive		a hundred		least	tree rules

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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