The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 14

They rode on their way for several miles, but the day was hot, and the sun’s rays smote fiercely on them, so that the Princess was soon overcome by thirst again.

Who acts: ornaments, day, rays, thirst, sun · What happens: ride, be, smite, overcome, ray · To what, where: way, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ornaments, day, rays, thirst), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 miles	case
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 miles	amod
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 way	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hot	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hot	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hot	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hot	cop
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rode	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smote	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 smote	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rays	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 sun	case
20	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 smote	nsubj
21	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
22	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	21 smote	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 smote	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 overcome	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	32 overcome	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 overcome	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 overcome	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 overcome	aux:pass
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 overcome	advmod
32	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rode	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 thirst	case
34	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 overcome	obl
35	again	again	ADV	_	32 overcome	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	ornaments = ornament		ornaments's way for several miles			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the day				hot property	tree rules
3	smite	past	the sun's rays				on ornaments = ornament; fiercely property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on they=Patient
4	overcome	past · passive	thirst	the Princess		again	soon property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
5	ray		the sun					nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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