The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 161
Then the empress mounted his horse, and rode back with her husband to her kingdom, over which they ruled for many years.
Who acts: empress, horses · What happens: mount, ride back, rule · To what, where: horse, kingdom
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 (empress, horses), 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 | 4 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 empress | det |
| 3 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 rode | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 kingdom | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ruled | punct |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ruled | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ruled | nsubj |
| 21 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rode | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 years | amod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ruled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the empress | dragon's horse | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride back | past | the empress not said here | empress's kingdom | with empress's husband | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to kingdom=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | rule | past | horses = horse | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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