The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 233
She was then perched on the top of a magnificent ambling palfrey, and they set forth to the castle.
Who acts: gypsies · What happens: perch, amble, set · To what, where: princess, top
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 (gypsies), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 perched | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perched | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 perched | advmod |
| 4 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perched | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 palfrey | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 palfrey | det |
| 10 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 palfrey | amod |
| 11 | ambling | amble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 palfrey | amod |
| 12 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 perched | conj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 castle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 perched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | past · passive | princess | the top of a magnificent ambling palfrey | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on top=Destination | |||
| 2 | amble | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | set | present | gypsies = gypsy | to the castle; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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