The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 64
There was no time to waste, as the dragon might return directly, so they took two horses out of the stable, and rode away at lightning speed.
Who acts: time, dragon, brothers · What happens: be, waste, return, take, ride away · To what, where: two horses, stable, lightning speed
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 (time, dragon, brothers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 waste | mark |
| 6 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 return | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 return | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | aux |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 waste | parataxis |
| 13 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 12 return | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 horses | nummod |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 stable | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 stable | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stable | det |
| 23 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rode | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rode | cc |
| 26 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 rode | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 speed | case |
| 29 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 speed | compound |
| 30 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rode | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | waste | to-infinitive | no time not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | return | might | the dragon | directly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | brothers = brother | two horses | the stable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme out stable=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | ride away | past | brothers = brother not said here | lightning speed | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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