The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 15

‘Take my horse, and ride straight through the wood towards the sunset till you come to a hill with three peaks.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, ride, come · To what, where: horse, wood, hill

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ride	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ride	cc
7	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 wood	advmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ride	obl
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 sunset	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sunset	det
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ride	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ride	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 hill	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hill	det
20	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 peaks	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 peaks	nummod
23	peaks	peak	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	my horse				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
2	ride	present	you not said here		the wood	sunset		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory
3	come	present	you		a hill		with three peaks	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=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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