The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 57
So golden lad rode through the forest and no harm befell him.
Who acts: golden lad, harm · What happens: ride, befall · To what, where: forest, brother
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden lad, harm), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lad | amod |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 befell | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 harm | det |
| 10 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 befell | nsubj |
| 11 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 befell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | golden lad | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | befall | past | no harm | brother | tree rules |
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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