The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 75

So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode a wearisome long way onward again, and after a very long time she came to a great mountain, where an aged woman was sitting, spinning at a golden spinning-wheel.

Who acts: girl, aged woman · What happens: seat, ride, come, sit, spin · To what, where: girl, wearisome long way, great mountain, golden spinning wheel

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
13	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rode	obj
16	onward	onward	ADV	_	17 again	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	11 rode	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
20	after	after	ADP	_	24 time	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 time	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rode	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mountain	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mountain	amod
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sitting	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 sitting	advmod
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 woman	det
34	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 woman	amod
35	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sitting	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sitting	aux
37	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 came	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spinning	punct
39	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 sitting	advcl
40	at	at	ADP	_	45 wheel	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 wheel	det
42	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 wheel	amod
43	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wheel	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 spinning	punct
45	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spinning	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	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		a wearisome long way		again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	come	past	girl		a great mountain	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
4	sit	past · progressive	a aged woman					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	spin	gerund	a aged woman not said here		a golden spinning wheel			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at wheel=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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