The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 33
Then the boy rode this horse, too, away to the place where he kept the other, and then went home again.
Who acts: boy · What happens: ride, keep, go · To what, where: horse, place, other
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rode | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 too | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 away | punct |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 place | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 kept | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kept | nsubj |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kept | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 went | advmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the boy | this horse | the place | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to place=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | keep | past | boy | the other | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the boy not said here | then; again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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