English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 42
The prince got up at midnight and rode away to the green hill and the fairy ball, and Kate went with him, gathering nuts as they rode through the forest.
Who acts: prince, Kate, nuts · What happens: get up, ride away, go, gather, rode · To what, where: green hill, nuts, forest
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Kate, nuts), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 midnight | case |
| 6 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hill | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hill | det |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hill | amod |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ball | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ball | det |
| 16 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ball | amod |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hill | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 20 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gathering | punct |
| 25 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 26 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gathering | obj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 rode | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 rode | nsubj |
| 29 | rode | rode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gathering | advcl |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 forest | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 forest | det |
| 32 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rode | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the prince | midnight | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ride away | past | the prince not said here | the green hill and the fairy ball | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hill=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | go | past | Kate | with prince | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | gather | gerund | Kate not said here | nuts | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rode | present | nuts = nut | the forest | 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: «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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