The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 10

At first they all kept together, but soon each began to think that he knew the right way best; so they separated, and all went in different directions.

Who acts: each, Ring, horses · What happens: keep together, begin, think, know, separate, go · To what, where: horses, right way, different directions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, Ring, horses), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 kept	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj:pass
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 kept	nsubj:pass
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 began	advmod
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 think	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obj
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 way	appos
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 separated	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 separated	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 separated	nsubj
24	separated	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 went	advmod
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 separated	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 directions	case
30	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 directions	amod
31	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep together	participle · passive		horses = horse		together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at first=Location
2	begin	past	each			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	each not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	know	past	Ring	the right way			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
5	separate	past	horses = horse				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	go	past	horses = horse not said here		different directions		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/10/