The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 8
At last the Prince’s horse gave way too, and then there came over them a darkness so black that they could no longer see the hind.
Who acts: last horse, darkness, horses · What happens: give, come over, see · To what, where: way, horses, hind
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 (last horse, darkness, 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Prince | case |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 gave | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 came | expl |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 them | advmod |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 darkness | det |
| 18 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 black | advmod |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 24 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 see | advmod |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 black | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hind | det |
| 28 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Prince's last horse | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come over | past | a darkness | horses = horse | there | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | see | could | horses = horse | the hind | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hind=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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