The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 2

The princess rode on and on, till at last she came to the mountains which hold up the roof of the world.

Who acts: princess, mountains · What happens: ride, come, hold up · To what, where: last, roof

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, mountains), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 on	cc
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 on	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 mountains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountains	det
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hold	nsubj
17	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mountains	acl:relcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 hold	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roof	det
20	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hold	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roof	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the princess				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	princess		last	to the mountains	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
3	hold up	present	the mountains	the roof of the world			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot roof=Theme

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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