The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 14
Finding no one about, the Prince rode on, and came to a great meadow, where the Sun-Tree grew.
Who acts: Prince, Sun · What happens: find, ride on, come, grow · To what, where: one, great meadow
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Sun), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rode | advcl |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finding | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 Finding | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finding | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | nsubj |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rode | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 meadow | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 meadow | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 meadow | amod |
| 16 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 grew | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sun | det |
| 20 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tree | punct |
| 22 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sun | conj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | the Prince not said here | no one | about property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 2 | ride on | past | the Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the Prince not said here | a great meadow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the Sun and Tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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