The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 81
So in the evening he appeared at the ball in his golden cloak; but before the entertainment was over he slipped away, and went straight to the stables, where he mounted his foal and rode out into the meadow to wait for the Flower Queen’s daughter.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: appear, slip away, go, mount, ride out, wait · To what, where: ball, stables, foal, meadow
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 ball | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cloak | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloak | amod |
| 13 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ball | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 slipped | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 slipped | cc |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 over | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 entertainment | det |
| 18 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 over | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 over | cop |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 slipped | advcl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slipped | nsubj |
| 22 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeared | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 slipped | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeared | conj |
| 27 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 30 stables | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 stables | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stables | det |
| 30 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mounted | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 mounted | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 mounted | nsubj |
| 34 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stables | acl:relcl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 foal | nmod:poss |
| 36 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mounted | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rode | cc |
| 38 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 mounted | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 rode | compound:prt |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 meadow | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 meadow | det |
| 42 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rode | obl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 wait | mark |
| 44 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 rode | advcl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 daughter | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Queen | det |
| 47 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Queen | compound |
| 48 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 48 Queen | case |
| 50 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wait | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Prince | the ball in Prince's golden cloak | evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ball=Location | |||
| 2 | slip away | past | Prince | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Prince not said here | the stables | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | mount | past | Prince | Prince's foal | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient | ||||
| 5 | ride out | past | Prince not said here | the meadow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into meadow=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | wait | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | for the Flower Queen's daughter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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