The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 15
So the twelve sons saddled their horses and rode for twelve days, till they met an old woman.
Who acts: twelve sons, sons · What happens: saddle, meet · To what, where: horses, old woman
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve sons, sons), 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 | _ | 5 saddled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sons | det |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sons | nummod |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saddled | nsubj |
| 5 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saddled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 9 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horses | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 days | nummod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saddled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 met | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saddled | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saddle | past | the twelve sons | sons's horses and rode | day | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | |||
| 2 | meet | past | sons = son | a old woman | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent |
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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