More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 142

He was not accustomed to ride on horseback, and he soon lost all control of his steed.

Who acts: John · What happens: not accustom, ride, lose · To what, where: John, horseback, control

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accustomed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accustomed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 accustomed	advmod
4	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ride	mark
6	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 accustomed	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 horseback	case
8	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lost	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lost	nsubj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 lost	advmod
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accustomed	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 control	det
15	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 steed	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 steed	nmod:poss
18	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 control	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not accustom	past · passive		John			tree rules
2	ride	to-infinitive			horseback		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past	John	all control of John's steed		soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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