The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 14
The next morning by break of day, after they had embraced and wished each other good success, they mounted their horses and took each a different road.
Who acts: Princes · What happens: embrace, wish, mount, take, break · To what, where: next morning, other good success, horses, each, day
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embraced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 break | case |
| 5 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 embraced | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 embraced | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 embraced | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 embraced | aux |
| 12 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wished | cc |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 embraced | conj |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 success | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 success | amod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 success | amod |
| 18 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wished | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mounted | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mounted | nsubj |
| 21 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 embraced | parataxis |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mounted | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mounted | conj |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 road | det |
| 28 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 road | amod |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past · perfect · passive | the next morning by break of day | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | wish | participle | each other good success | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot success=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | Princes = prince | Princes's horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Princes = prince not said here | each | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument each=Theme road=Destination | ||||
| 5 | break | day | nom break «event transitive»: of=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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