The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 28
And she put it on, and looked more lovely than ever, and King Frost stepped with her into his sledge, with six white horses.
Who acts: girl, King · What happens: put on, look, step · To what, where: box, sledge
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 put | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 lovely | advmod |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 lovely | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stepped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stepped | cc |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stepped | nsubj |
| 16 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | flat |
| 17 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stepped | obl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 sledge | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stepped | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 horses | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 horses | case |
| 25 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 horses | nummod |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 horses | amod |
| 27 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stepped | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on | past | girl | box | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 2 | look | past | lovely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | step | past | King | king's sledge | with girl; with six white horses | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sledge=Destination |
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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