Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 85
The fairy queen had mounted her horse and riding off dragged the old man after her.
Who acts: fairy queen, riding · What happens: mount, ride off, drag · To what, where: horse, old man
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy queen, riding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | compound |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | aux |
| 5 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mounted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dragged | cc |
| 9 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 dragged | csubj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 riding | compound:prt |
| 11 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dragged | obj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dragged | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · perfect | the fairy queen | queen's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ride off | gerund | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | drag | past | riding | the old man | after queen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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