The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 60
Prince Milan rode on slowly with his bride without fearing any further pursuit.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: ride on, fear · To what, where: further pursuit
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 rode | compound:prt |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bride | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bride | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 fearing | mark |
| 10 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rode | advcl |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 pursuit | det |
| 12 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pursuit | amod |
| 13 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fearing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride on | past | Prince | with Prince's bride; slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fear | gerund | Prince not said here | any further pursuit | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pursuit=Stimulus |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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