The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 52
At the head of it rode Fanfaronade himself upon a white horse, which pranced and caracoled to the sound of the trumpets.
What happens: ride, prance, caracole · To what, where: Fanfaronade, head, white horse
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 Fanfaronade | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pranced | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 pranced | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | pranced | prance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 horse | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caracoled | cc |
| 17 | caracoled | caracole | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 pranced | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sound | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sound | det |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caracoled | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trumpets | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trumpets | det |
| 23 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sound | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Fanfaronade Fanfaronade | the head of head | upon a white horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fanfaronade=Theme | |||
| 2 | prance | participle · passive | a white horse | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 3 | caracole | participle | to the sound of the trumpets | tree rules |
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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