The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 131
The third night the prince mounted the mare and rode her out to the meadows, with the foal trotting after.
Who acts: prince, foal · What happens: mount, ride out, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | nsubj |
| 6 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mare | det |
| 8 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mounted | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rode | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 rode | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 meadows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meadows | det |
| 15 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rode | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 foal | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 foal | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foal | det |
| 19 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl |
| 20 | trotting | trot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 foal | acl |
| 21 | after | after | ADV | _ | 20 trotting | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the prince | the mare | night | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride out | past | the prince not said here | mare | the meadows | with the foal | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to meadow=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | trot | gerund | the foal not said here | after property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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