The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 59

Thus he rode for a long way--it may have been a third part of the way up--but when he had got so far he turned his horse round and rode down again.

Who acts: knight, way · What happens: ride, be, get, turn, ride down · To what, where: third part, horse

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 (knight, way), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 part	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 part	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 part	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 part	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 part	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 part	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 part	amod
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
19	up	up	ADV	_	18 way	advmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 turned	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 turned	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 got	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 got	aux
25	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 turned	parataxis
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 got	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 turned	nsubj
29	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 horse	nmod:poss
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turned	obj
32	round	round	ADV	_	29 turned	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rode	cc
34	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 rode	compound:prt
36	again	again	ADV	_	34 rode	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	knight			for a long way; thus property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	may · perfect	way	a third part		of the way	tree rules
3	get	past · perfect	knight			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	turn	past	knight	knight's horse		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5	ride down	past	knight not said here		again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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