The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 138

And when he had mounted and ridden her home the old woman was on the steps to receive them, and she set some food before the prince, but led the mare back to her stable.

Who acts: wolf, old woman, woman · What happens: mount, ride, be, receive, set, lead · To what, where: home, steps, food, mare

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 (wolf, old woman, woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 mounted	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 mounted	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mounted	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mounted	aux
5	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ridden	cc
7	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 mounted	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 home	nmod:poss
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mounted	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 steps	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 steps	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 steps	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 steps	det
16	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mounted	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 receive	mark
18	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 steps	acl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 receive	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 set	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mounted	parataxis
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 food	det
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obj
26	before	before	ADP	_	28 prince	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 prince	det
28	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 led	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 led	cc
31	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 set	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mare	det
33	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 led	obj
34	back	back	ADV	_	31 led	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 stable	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 stable	nmod:poss
37	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 back	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past · perfect	wolf	mare's home			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
2	ride	participle	wolf not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the old woman			on the steps	tree rules
4	receive	to-infinitive	wolf not said here	steps = step			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	set	past	woman	some food	before the prince		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme before prince=Destination
6	lead	past	woman not said here	the mare			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=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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