The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 140
The elder brother rode straight on till he reached the borders of a strange kingdom.
Who acts: elder brother, brother · What happens: ride, reach · To what, where: borders
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 on | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 reached | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 borders | det |
| 11 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kingdom | amod |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 borders | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the elder brother | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | brother | the borders of a strange kingdom | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent border=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.
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