The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 76
The King and the Princess saluted her, and her horse was brought forward for her to mount.
Who acts: King · What happens: salute, bring forward, mount · To what, where: Princess, horse
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saluted | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Princess | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saluted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux:pass |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saluted | parataxis |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 brought | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 mount | mark |
| 18 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 brought | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | the King and the Princess | Princess | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring forward | past · passive | Princess's horse | for Princess; forward property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | mount | to-infinitive | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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