The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 5
So Petru mounted his horse, and had hardly ridden three steps when he found himself in a new country.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: mount, ride, find · To what, where: horse, three steps, Petru, new country
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ridden | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ridden | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ridden | aux |
| 9 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 10 ridden | advmod |
| 10 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 mounted | conj |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 steps | nummod |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ridden | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 found | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ridden | advcl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Petru | Petru's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ride | past · perfect | Petru not said here | three steps | hardly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | Petru | Petru | a new country | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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