The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 24

The waiting-maid now mounted Falada, and the real bride the worse horse, and so they continued their journey till at length they arrived at the palace yard.

Who acts: waiting maid, real bride, words · What happens: mount, horse, continue, arrive, journey · To what, where: Falada, journey, length

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 (waiting maid, real bride, words), 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	4 maid	det
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 waiting	punct
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mounted	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mounted	advmod
6	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mounted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 horse	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 horse	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bride	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bride	amod
12	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 horse	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
14	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 horse	amod
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mounted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 continued	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 continued	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 continued	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 continued	nsubj
20	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mounted	parataxis
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 journey	nmod:poss
22	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 continued	obj
23	till	till	ADP	_	25 length	case
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 length	case
25	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 continued	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 arrived	nsubj
27	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 length	acl:relcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 yard	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 yard	det
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 yard	compound
31	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arrived	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	the waiting maid	Falada	now		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falada=Patient
2	horse		the real bride				tree rules
3	continue	past	words = word	words's journey	till length		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
4	arrive	past	words = word	length not said here		at the palace yard	tree rules
5	journey		words = word				nom journey «act 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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