The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 182
Then he took Elsa on his horse, and rode with her to the town, where the old king received her graciously.
Who acts: thanks, old king · What happens: take, ride, receive · To what, where: Elsa, town
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thanks, old king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rode | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 received | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 received | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 king | amod |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 received | nsubj |
| 21 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rode | parataxis |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 received | obj |
| 23 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 21 received | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | thanks | Elsa | then | on thanks's horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elsa=Theme on horse=Destination | ||
| 2 | ride | past | thanks not said here | the town | with Elsa | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to town=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | receive | past | the old king | Elsa | graciously property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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