The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 6
They went on a long way, until they caught sight of a hind with a gold ring on its horns.
Who acts: men · What happens: go, catch · To what, where: long way, sight
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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 caught | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hind | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hind | det |
| 14 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sight | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 ring | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ring | det |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ring | compound |
| 18 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 horns | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horns | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ring | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | men = man | a long way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | men = man | sight of a hind | with a gold ring on sight's horns | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=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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