The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 94

A day’s journey from the palace, she reached the copper bridge, but before they came in sight of it, the horse, who was a magician, had warned her of the means her father would take to prove her courage.

Who acts: journey, preparations, horse, the, father, day · What happens: reach, come, be, warn, mean, take · To what, where: copper bridge, horse, sight, magician, bade, courage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, preparations, horse, the), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 journey	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 day	case
4	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 journey	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reached	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reached	nsubj
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bridge	det
12	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bridge	compound
13	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warned	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 warned	cc
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 warned	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 sight	case
20	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sight	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 horse	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 magician	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 magician	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 magician	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 magician	det
30	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 horse	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warned	punct
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 warned	aux
33	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 reached	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 warned	obj
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 means	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 means	nsubj
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 warned	advcl
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 father	nmod:poss
39	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 take	aux
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 means	ccomp
42	to	to	PART	_	43 prove	mark
43	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 take	advcl
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 courage	nmod:poss
45	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 prove	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past	a day's journey from the palace	the copper bridge			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme
2	come	past	preparations = preparation	the horse and a magician		sight of bridge	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
3	is a	past	the horse and a magician	a magician			tree rules
4	warn speech: warn	past · perfect	a day's journey from the palace not said here		bade		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	mean	present	the				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take	would	bade's father				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	prove	to-infinitive	bade's father not said here	bade's courage			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
8	journey		a day			the palace	nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place
9	sight			bridge			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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