The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 42
Then Jack rode on in front pointing out the way, and the King reached his own country in safety.
Who acts: Jack, King · What happens: ride on, point out, reach · To what, where: front, way, own country, safety
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, King), 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 | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rode | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 pointing | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pointing | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reached | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 country | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 safety | case |
| 20 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride on | past | Jack | front | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | point out | gerund | Jack not said here | the way | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | the King | King's own country | safety | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=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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