The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 40

Then the lad rode into the mountain cleft at full gallop and caught up the Princess on his saddle-bow, and then out again before the Troll even had time to stand up, and thus the Princess was set free.

Who acts: lad, Troll · What happens: ride, catch up, have, stand up, set · To what, where: mountain cleft, Princess, saddle bow

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (lad, Troll), 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	4 rode	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 cleft	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cleft	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleft	compound
8	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 gallop	case
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gallop	amod
11	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 caught	cc
13	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 caught	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 bow	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bow	nmod:poss
19	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bow	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 saddle	punct
21	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 out	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 out	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 out	advmod
25	out	out	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 out	advmod
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Troll	det
29	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 had	advmod
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	advcl
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 stand	mark
34	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 time	acl
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 stand	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 set	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 set	cc
38	thus	thus	ADV	_	42 set	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Princess	det
40	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 set	nsubj:pass
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 set	aux:pass
42	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rode	conj
43	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 set	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the lad		the mountain cleft	then	at full gallop; out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into cleft=Trajectory
2	catch up	past	the lad not said here	the Princess	Dapplegrim's saddle bow			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
3	have	past	the Troll			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stand up	to-infinitive	the Troll not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	set	past · passive		the Princess			free, thus property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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