The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 3
A young Prince was riding one day through a meadow that stretched for miles in front of him, when he came to a deep open ditch.
Who acts: young Prince, meadow, Prince · What happens: ride, stretch, come · To what, where: meadow, front, deep open ditch
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, meadow, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 riding | aux |
| 5 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 meadow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 meadow | det |
| 10 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stretched | nsubj |
| 12 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 meadow | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 miles | case |
| 14 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stretched | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stretched | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 front | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 came | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 riding | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 ditch | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ditch | det |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ditch | amod |
| 26 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ditch | amod |
| 27 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 riding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · progressive | a young Prince | a meadow | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through meadow=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stretch | past | a meadow | front of Prince | for miles | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | past | Prince | a deep open ditch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ditch=Initial_Location |
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.
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