The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 58
Then the brothers rode away as fast as they could, with his bride.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: ride away
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 (brothers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rode | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 rode | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 could | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fast | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bride | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bride | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bride | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away | past | the brothers | then | with brother's bride; away, fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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