The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 46
The girl sprang into the saddle, and rode as swift as an arrow to the palace.
Who acts: girl · What happens: spring, ride · To what, where: saddle, palace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 saddle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 saddle | det |
| 6 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 swift | advmod |
| 11 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rode | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 arrow | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 arrow | det |
| 14 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the girl | the saddle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into saddle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | the girl not said here | the palace | as a arrow; swift property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory |
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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