The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 54
Then they set the princess on horseback, took the bird Grip, and rode homeward.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: set, take, ride · To what, where: princess, horseback, bird Grip, homeward
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horseback | case |
| 7 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Grip | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Grip | compound |
| 12 | Grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rode | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rode | cc |
| 15 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 16 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rode | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | brothers = brother | the princess | horseback | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on horseback=Destination | ||
| 2 | take | past | the bird Grip | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | homeward | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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/pg5615/15/54/