The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 113
And so they rode, one day like the wind, the next like thought, the third and fourth like desire and like a curse, till they reached the borders of the desert.
Who acts: forwards · What happens: ride, reach · To what, where: borders
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forwards), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rode | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 next | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 next | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rode | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 thought | case |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 next | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 third | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 third | det |
| 18 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 rode | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fourth | cc |
| 20 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 third | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 desire | case |
| 22 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 third | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 curse | cc |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 curse | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 curse | det |
| 26 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 desire | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reached | punct |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 reached | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 reached | nsubj |
| 30 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 borders | det |
| 32 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 reached | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 desert | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 desert | det |
| 35 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 borders | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | forwards = forward | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | forwards = forward | the borders of the desert | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent border=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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