The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 33

The servants mounted their horses and rode after the Prince; but as they did not know which road he had taken, they went all ways except the right one, and instead of bringing him back they returned themselves when it grew dark, with their horses worn out and covered with dust.

Who acts: servants, horse, road, horses · What happens: mount, ride, not know, take, go, bring back · To what, where: horses, road, ways, horse, servants

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 (servants, horse, road, horses), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mounted	nsubj
3	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horses	nmod:poss
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mounted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rode	cc
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 Prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rode	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 know	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	advcl
18	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 taken	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taken	aux
22	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 road	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 ways	det
27	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	obl:unmarked
28	except	except	ADP	_	31 one	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 one	det
30	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 one	amod
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bringing	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bringing	cc
34	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 bringing	mark
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 instead	fixed
36	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 went	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bringing	obj
38	back	back	ADV	_	36 bringing	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 returned	nsubj
40	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 bringing	parataxis
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 returned	obj
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 grew	advmod
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 grew	nsubj
44	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 returned	conj
45	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 grew	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 worn	punct
47	with	with	SCONJ	_	50 worn	mark
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 horses	nmod:poss
49	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 worn	nsubj
50	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 grew	conj
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 worn	compound:prt
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 covered	cc
53	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 worn	conj
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 dust	case
55	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 covered	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	the servants	servants's horses				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	ride	past	the servants not said here			after the Prince		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	servants = servant	which road				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus
4	take	past · perfect	horse	which road not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
5	go	past	servants = servant	all ways			except the right one	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bring back	gerund	servants = servant not said here		horse			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
7	return	past	servants = servant	servants = servant				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
8	grow	past	road				dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	wear out	participle	servants's horses					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
10	cover	participle	servants's horses not said here				with dust	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dust=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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