The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 99
Once outside, the young adventurer put his oranges into a bag that hung from his saddle, mounted his horse, and rode quickly out of the forest.
Who acts: young adventurer, bag · What happens: put, hang, mount, ride · To what, where: oranges, bag, saddle, horse, forest
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 (young adventurer, bag), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 put | advmod |
| 2 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 1 Once | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 adventurer | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 adventurer | amod |
| 6 | adventurer | adventurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 oranges | nmod:poss |
| 9 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 bag | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bag | det |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hung | nsubj |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bag | acl:relcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 saddle | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mounted | punct |
| 19 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rode | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rode | cc |
| 24 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 25 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 24 rode | advmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rode | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the young adventurer | adventurer's oranges | a bag | once property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent orange=Goal | ||
| 2 | hang | past | a bag | adventurer's saddle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | the young adventurer not said here | adventurer's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | the young adventurer not said here | the forest | quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out forest=Trajectory |
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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