The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 87
The two golden lads fell into each other’s arms and kissed each other with joy, and then rode off together to the edge of the forest, where they parted, one to return to his old father, and the other to his bride.
Who acts: two golden lads, lads · What happens: fall, kiss, ride off, part, return · To what, where: arms, each, one, edge
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 (two golden lads, lads), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lads | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 lads | nummod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lads | amod |
| 4 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 other | case |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | cc |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 kissed | obj |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kissed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rode | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rode | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 rode | advmod |
| 20 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 rode | compound:prt |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 rode | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 edge | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 edge | det |
| 25 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rode | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 edge | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 parted | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 parted | advmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 parted | nsubj |
| 32 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 forest | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 one | punct |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 rode | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 return | mark |
| 36 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 rode | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 father | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 father | nmod:poss |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 father | amod |
| 40 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 return | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 other | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 other | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 other | det |
| 44 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 bride | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 bride | nmod:poss |
| 47 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 other | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the two golden lads | each other's arms | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient arm=Result | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the two golden lads not said here | each | with joy | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent each=Experiencer with joy=Instrument | |||
| 3 | ride off | past | the two golden lads not said here | one | the edge of the forest | then | together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to edge=Trajectory | |
| 4 | part | past | lads = lad | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | return | to-infinitive | the two golden lads not said here | to son's old father result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result |
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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