English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 5

So he called for his horse, and rode into York; and passed by the father's house, and saw him sitting by the door, sad and doleful.

Who acts: baron · What happens: call, ride, pass, see, sit · To what, where: York, baron · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baron), 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	_	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
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 called	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 York	case
11	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 rode	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
14	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 called	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	19 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 father	det
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obj
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 saw	xcomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sad	punct
29	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sitting	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 doleful	cc
31	doleful	doleful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sad	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	baron			for baron's horse	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for horse=Recipient
2	ride	past	baron not said here		York		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into york=Trajectory
3	pass	participle	baron not said here			by the father's house	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by house=Location
4	see	past	baron not said here	baron			tree rules
5	sit	gerund	baron not said here			by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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