The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 94

They rode back all the way they had come till they reached the place where they had found the eagle caught in the snare; then the horse bade Ciccu to call three times on the king of the birds, and when he replied, to beg him to fetch the veil which the fairest in the world had let fall.

Who acts: women, Ciccu · What happens: ride back, come, reach, find, catch, call · To what, where: way, place, eagle, snare, Ciccu, fall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, Ciccu), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 rode	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 way	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 way	acl:relcl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 reached	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reached	nsubj
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 found	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 place	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eagle	det
20	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obj
21	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 eagle	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 snare	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 snare	det
24	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 bade	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bade	det
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bade	compound
29	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
30	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 bade	appos
31	to	to	PART	_	32 call	mark
32	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rode	advcl
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 times	nummod
34	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 call	obl:unmarked
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 king	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 call	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 birds	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 birds	det
40	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 king	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 replied	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 replied	cc
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 replied	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 replied	nsubj
45	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 beg	punct
47	to	to	PART	_	48 beg	mark
48	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 replied	advcl
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 beg	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 fetch	mark
51	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 beg	xcomp
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 veil	det
53	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 fairest	nsubj
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 fairest	nsubj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 fairest	det
56	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 fetch	parataxis
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 world	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 world	det
59	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 let	obl
60	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 let	aux
61	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 fairest	parataxis
62	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 let	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride back	past	women = woman	all way				the horse bade obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · perfect	women = woman	all way not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	reach	past	women = woman	the place					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	find	past · perfect	women = woman	the eagle					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Topic
5	catch	participle		the eagle not said here		the snare			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	call	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here				time	on the king of the birds	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	reply speech: assert	past	Ciccu						vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	Ciccu not said here		Ciccu				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
9	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ciccu not said here						vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	let	past · perfect		fall		the world			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=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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