The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 5
He dismounted from his horse, and stepped along in the direction the sound came from.
Who acts: Prince, sound · What happens: dismount, step, come · To what, where: direction
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 (Prince, sound), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dismounted | nsubj |
| 2 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dismounted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stepped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stepped | cc |
| 8 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dismounted | conj |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 8 stepped | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 direction | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 direction | det |
| 12 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 direction | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | Prince | from Prince's horse | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent from horse=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | step | past | Prince not said here | the direction | along property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | past | the sound | the direction not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=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 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/pg640/34/5/