The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 124
At last they agreed about the price, and Halvor laid his bag on the horse, and sometimes he walked and sometimes he rode.
Who acts: turns, Halvor · What happens: agree, lay, walk, ride · To what, where: last, bag
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turns, Halvor), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 agreed | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 price | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 price | det |
| 7 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laid | cc |
| 10 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 laid | nsubj |
| 11 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bag | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laid | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 walked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 walked | cc |
| 19 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 walked | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rode | cc |
| 23 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 rode | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rode | nsubj |
| 25 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 walked | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | turns = turn | last | about the price | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about price=Topic | |||
| 2 | lay | past | Halvor | Halvor's bag | on the horse | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 3 | walk | past | Halvor | sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | Halvor | sometimes property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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