The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 5
When he was twelve years old, one fine winter day he rode into the forest along with his men to enjoy himself.
Who acts: Ring · What happens: be, ride, enjoy · To what, where: forest, Ring
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 (Ring), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 old | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 old | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rode | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 10 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | compound |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rode | nsubj |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 men | nmod:poss |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rode | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 enjoy | mark |
| 22 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rode | advcl |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 enjoy | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ring | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride | past | Ring | the forest | day | along Ring's men | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | Ring not said here | Ring | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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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