The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 67
I dressed in all haste, had my palfrey saddled, and rode of at full gallop towards the forest, attended by one servant only.
Who acts: I, palfrey · What happens: dress, have, saddle, attend · To what, where: rode, haste, forest
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, palfrey), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 haste | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 haste | det |
| 5 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dressed | conj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 palfrey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saddled | nsubj |
| 10 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rode | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rode | cc |
| 13 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gallop | case |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 gallop | case |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gallop | amod |
| 17 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | nmod |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 attended | punct |
| 22 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 forest | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 servant | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 servant | nummod |
| 25 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 attended | obl |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 servant | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | I | rode of full gallop | all haste | towards the forest | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | have | past | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | saddle | past | my palfrey | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | attend | participle | the forest not said here | by one servant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by servant=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 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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