The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 17
On the following morning the Prince drove his horses as usual to the fields.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: follow, drive · To what, where: horses, fields
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | nsubj |
| 7 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horses | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drove | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 usual | case |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 drove | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 fields | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fields | det |
| 14 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drove | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | drive | past | the Prince | Prince's horses | the fields | morning | as usual | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to field=Trajectory |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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/pg640/32/17/