The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 114
Then he put the halter round her neck, and rode her home, the foal always trotting behind them.
Who acts: prince · What happens: put, ride, trot · To what, where: halter, home
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 halter | det |
| 5 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 home | nmod:poss |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 foal | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foal | det |
| 16 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 home | conj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 rode | advmod |
| 18 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 rode | advcl |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trotting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | prince | the halter | then | round mare's neck | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent halter=Goal | ||
| 2 | ride | past | prince not said here | mare's home and the foal | always property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||
| 3 | trot | gerund | prince not said here | behind foal | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory |
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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