The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 91
At last, after a long time, came a knight riding upon a horse that was such a fine one, its equal had never yet been seen.
Who acts: knight, that · What happens: come, ride, be, not see · To what, where: fine one, equal
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, that), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 12 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 knight | acl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 riding | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 one | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 horse | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seen | punct |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 equal | nmod:poss |
| 24 | equal | equal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 seen | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 seen | advmod |
| 27 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 29 seen | advmod |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 seen | aux:pass |
| 29 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a knight | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | a knight not said here | upon a horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | such fine one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect · passive | armor's equal | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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