The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 64
So he mounted Dapplegrim and rode away from the Court, and when he had ridden for a long, long time over hills and moors, Dapplegrim asked: ‘Do you hear anything?’
Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim, you · What happens: mount, ride away, ride, ask, hear · To what, where: Dapplegrim, Court, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youth, Dapplegrim, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rode | cc |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 rode | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Court | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Court | det |
| 10 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ridden | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ridden | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 ridden | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ridden | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ridden | aux |
| 16 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 mounted | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ridden | obl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 hills | case |
| 24 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 time | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 moors | cc |
| 26 | moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hills | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 asked | punct |
| 28 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 asked | nsubj |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | parataxis |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 hear | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 hear | punct |
| 32 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 hear | aux |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 hear | nsubj |
| 34 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 asked | ccomp |
| 35 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 hear | obj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 hear | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | youth | Dapplegrim | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dapplegrim=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ride away | past | youth not said here | the Court | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from court=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | ride | past · perfect | youth | time | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Dapplegrim | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hear | present · do-support | you | anything | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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