The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 70
When she had seated herself on the horse the Prince came running out of the church and asked her whence she came.
Who acts: daughter, Prince · What happens: seat, come, run, ask · To what, where: daughter, church · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Prince), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 seated | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seated | aux |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 seated | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 running | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | iobj |
| 20 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 came | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · perfect | daughter | daughter | on the horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | |||
| 2 | come | past | the Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | the Prince not said here | the church | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out church=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince not said here | daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come | past | daughter | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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