The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 43
So the princess came down from the tree and mounted Sunlight, while the stud followed meekly after, the wounded horse bringing up the rear.
Who acts: princess, stud, wounded horse · What happens: come down, mount, follow, bring up · To what, where: tree, Sunlight, rear
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (princess, stud, wounded horse), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mounted | cc |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 followed | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 followed | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stud | det |
| 15 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | nsubj |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 17 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 16 followed | advmod |
| 18 | after | after | ADV | _ | 16 followed | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 horse | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 21 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 horse | amod |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | parataxis |
| 23 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 horse | acl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 bringing | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rear | det |
| 26 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bringing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the princess | the tree | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | mount | past | the princess not said here | Sunlight | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | the stud | after, meekly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring up | gerund | the wounded horse not said here | the rear | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rear=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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