The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 7
When they had walked some distance they got upon the ice, and there they met a man in a carriage who was driving a black horse.
Who acts: man, carriage · What happens: walk, get, meet, drive · To what, where: distance, man, carriage, black horse
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, carriage), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 distance | acl:relcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 ice | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ice | det |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 met | expl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 carriage | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 carriage | det |
| 21 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 driving | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 driving | aux |
| 24 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 carriage | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 horse | det |
| 26 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 horse | amod |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 driving | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | man | some distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | get | past | man | some distance not said here | upon the ice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distance=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | meet | past | man | a man | a carriage; there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | drive | past · progressive | a carriage | a black horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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