The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 19
At length he dismounted, and, leaving his horses at the roadside, went on foot to the house of Venus.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: dismount, leave, go · To what, where: length, horses, roadside, foot
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dismounted | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dismounted | nsubj |
| 4 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 leaving | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 8 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dismounted | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horses | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leaving | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 roadside | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roadside | det |
| 13 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaving | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismounted | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Venus | case |
| 22 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | Petru | length | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | Petru not said here | Petru's horses | the roadside | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at roadside=Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | Petru not said here | foot | to the house of Venus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_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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