The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 74
Ride slowly till you get to the fairy’s kingdom, then dismount and go on foot.
Who acts: you · What happens: ride, get, dismount, go · To what, where: foot
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 (you), 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 | Ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 1 Ride | advmod |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ride | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairy | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 fairy | case |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dismount | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 dismount | advmod |
| 13 | dismount | dismount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ride | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 dismount | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | imperative | you not said here | slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | present | you | to the fairy's kingdom result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result | ||||
| 3 | dismount | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you not said here | foot | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=Location |
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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