The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 23
So he mounted it and rode away to a place which no one knew of but himself, and there he tied it up.
Who acts: boy, one · What happens: mount, ride away, know, tie up · To what, where: power, place
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, one), 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 | _ | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rode | cc |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 rode | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 knew | obj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 knew | obl |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 himself | cc |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 knew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tied | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tied | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 tied | expl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tied | nsubj |
| 22 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tied | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 tied | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | boy | power | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ride away | past | boy not said here | a place | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | know | past | no one | a place | boy obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | tie up | past | boy | power | there | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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