The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 17
After this she took leave of her father, and rode off with her girls to the court of her former lover.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: take, ride off · To what, where: leave, court
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 took | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 rode | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 girls | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 girls | nmod:poss |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rode | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 court | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 court | det |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lover | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lover | nmod:poss |
| 21 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lover | amod |
| 22 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 court | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Princess | leave of Princess's father | after this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride off | past | Princess not said here | the court of Princess's former lover | with Princess's girls | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to court=Trajectory |
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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