The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 53

However, it was dangerous to go back, and they rode on as fast as the horse would go.

Who acts: it, sisters, horse · What happens: be, go back, ride on, go

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, sisters, 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dangerous	csubj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rode	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rode	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rode	nsubj
12	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	parataxis
13	on	on	ADV	_	12 rode	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 fast	advmod
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 rode	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fast	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dangerous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	dangerous, however property	tree rules
2	go back	to-infinitive			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	ride on	past	sisters = sister	fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	go	would	the horse		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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