The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 14
Then he assembled all his armed men, and after bidding the Queen a tender farewell, he mounted his splendid horse and rode away.
Who acts: Fie · What happens: assemble, bid, mount, ride away · To what, where: armed men, Queen, splendid horse
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fie), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 assembled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assembled | nsubj |
| 3 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 men | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 assembled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mounted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mounted | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 bidding | mark |
| 11 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 mounted | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bidding | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 farewell | det |
| 15 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 farewell | compound |
| 16 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bidding | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bidding | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mounted | nsubj |
| 19 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assembled | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 horse | amod |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rode | cc |
| 24 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mounted | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 rode | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | Fie | Fie's armed men | then | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | bid | gerund | Fie not said here | the Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | Fie | Fie's splendid horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride away | past | Fie not said here | away property | 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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