The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 94

‘Sit firmly in the saddle, my lord, for we have a long way to go and no time to waste,’ said the brown horse, and Petru soon saw that they were riding as no man and horse had ever ridden before.

Who acts: we, Petru, saddles · What happens: sit, have, go, waste, say, see · To what, where: lord, saddle, long way, brown horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we, Petru, saddles), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
3	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 Sit	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 saddle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lord	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lord	nmod:poss
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	acl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 time	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 waste	mark
23	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horse	det
28	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 horse	amod
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
32	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 saw	nsubj
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 saw	advmod
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	parataxis
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 riding	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 riding	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 riding	aux
38	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 saw	advcl
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 man	case
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 man	det
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ridden	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 horse	cc
43	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 man	conj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 ridden	aux
45	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	46 ridden	advmod
46	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 riding	conj
47	before	before	ADV	_	46 ridden	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	infinitive		my lord	the saddle		firmly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in saddle=Location
2	have	present	we	a long way				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	go	to-infinitive	we not said here	a long way not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	waste	to-infinitive	we not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past		the brown horse				tree rules
6	see	past	Petru				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	ride	past · progressive	saddles = saddle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	ride	past · perfect	saddles = saddle not said here			ever	as no man and horse; before property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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