The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 84
Then he mounted his golden horse, and rode off till he reached the forest where his brother lay transformed to stone.
Who acts: son · What happens: mount, ride off, reach, transform · To what, where: golden horse, 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 (son), 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 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 rode | compound:prt |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rode | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 transformed | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 transformed | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 transformed | aux:pass |
| 20 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 forest | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 transformed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | son | son's golden horse | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride off | past | son not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | son | the forest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | transform | past · passive | son's brother | to stone | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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