The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 27

She set out very early the next morning, mounted upon a pretty little white mule, which was shod with solid gold, and two of her ladies rode behind her on beautiful horses.

Who acts: last, two · What happens: set out, mount, shoe, ride · To what, where: next morning, pretty little white mule

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, two), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 early	advmod
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 set	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mounted	punct
10	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 morning	acl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 mule	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mule	det
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mule	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mule	amod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mule	amod
16	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mounted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shod	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 shod	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shod	aux:pass
20	shod	shoe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 mule	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 gold	case
22	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gold	amod
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shod	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rode	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rode	cc
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 rode	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 ladies	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ladies	nmod:poss
29	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 two	nmod
30	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
31	behind	behind	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rode	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 horses	case
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 horses	amod
35	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 rode	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	last		morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mount	participle		the next morning not said here		upon a pretty little white mule	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon mule=Destination
3	shoe	past · passive		a pretty little white mule		with solid gold	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme
4	ride	past	two of last's ladies			behind last; on beautiful horses	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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