The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 140

He mounted his horse and took her in front of him, and, holding her carefully in his arms, they began their journey.

Who acts: father, arms · What happens: mount, take, hold, begin, journey · To what, where: horse, Zizi, front, arms, journey

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, arms), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mounted	nsubj
2	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mounted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mounted	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 front	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 holding	punct
15	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 began	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 carefully	nmod:poss
17	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	15 holding	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 arms	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 holding	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 holding	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mounted	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 journey	nmod:poss
25	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mount	past	father	father's horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	take	past	father not said here	Zizi	front of father		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in front=Location
3	hold	gerund	arms = arm not said here		father's arms	carefully property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arm=Location
4	begin	past	arms = arm	arms's journey			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality
5	journey		arms = arm				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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