The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 48
He mounted the horse and rode on—rode and rode, until he saw standing before him a palace made of copper.
Who acts: Norka · What happens: mount, see, stand, make · To what, where: horse, rode, palace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norka), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rode | cc |
| 6 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horse | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rode | case |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 9 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 saw | xcomp |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 standing | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | obj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 palace | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 copper | case |
| 23 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Norka | the horse and rode | rode and rode | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on road=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | Norka | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | Norka not said here | a palace | before Norka | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme before he=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | participle | a palace not said here | of copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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