The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 72

So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode for a long, long way, and at last she came to the mountain, where an aged woman was sitting outside with a gold carding-comb.

Who acts: girl, aged woman · What happens: seat, ride, come, sit · To what, where: girl, last

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, aged 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 seated	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seated	nsubj
4	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 seated	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rode	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rode	cc
11	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	17 way	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rode	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 came	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rode	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 mountain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mountain	det
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sitting	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 sitting	advmod
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 woman	det
30	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sitting	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sitting	aux
33	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
34	outside	outside	ADV	_	33 sitting	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	40 comb	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 comb	det
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 carding	compound
38	carding	carding	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 comb	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 carding	punct
40	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sitting	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	the girl	girl		on the horse	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value
2	ride	past				for a long long way	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	girl		last	to the mountain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
4	sit	past · progressive	a aged woman			with a carding comb; outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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