The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 95
There was a long, handsome bridge over the river, and when they had got to the other side of it they again travelled on a long, long way, and then once more the Foal inquired if Cinderlad saw anything.
Who acts: long handsome bridge, foals, Foal, Cinderlad · What happens: be, get, travel, inquire, see · To what, where: other side, long long way, anything
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long handsome bridge, foals, Foal, Cinderlad), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bridge | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 6 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bridge | amod |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bridge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 got | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 was | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 side | nmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 travelled | nsubj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 travelled | advmod |
| 25 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 side | acl:relcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 long | punct |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 travelled | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 inquired | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 inquired | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 inquired | advmod |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 more | advmod |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 inquired | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Foal | det |
| 38 | Foal | Foal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 inquired | nsubj |
| 39 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 saw | mark |
| 41 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 saw | nsubj |
| 42 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 inquired | ccomp |
| 43 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 saw | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a long handsome bridge over the river | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | foals = foal | to the other side of bridge result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result | ||||
| 3 | travel | past | foals = foal | the other side of bridge not said here | a long long way | again | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | the Foal | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | see a condition, not said to happen | past | Cinderlad | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/95/