The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 119

So when it began to grow dark the prince mounted the mare for the second time and rode into the meadows, and the foal trotted behind its mother.

Who acts: house, prince, foal · What happens: begin, grow, dark, mount, ride, trot · To what, where: mare, meadows

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 (house, prince, foal), 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 began	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	dark	dark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grow	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mounted	nsubj
10	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mare	det
12	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mounted	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mounted	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rode	cc
18	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mounted	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 meadows	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 meadows	det
21	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rode	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 trotted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 trotted	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 foal	det
25	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trotted	nsubj
26	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 mother	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trotted	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	house					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	to-infinitive	house not said here					tree rules
3	dark	infinitive	house not said here					tree rules
4	mount	past	the prince	the mare		time		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Patient
5	ride	past	the prince not said here		the meadows			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into meadow=Trajectory
6	trot	past	the foal				behind house's mother	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind mother=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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