More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 62

But all of a sudden, round the corner came the squire on horseback, full gallop, as if the boggles were after him; but the fool had to jump, even though the squire pulled his horse back on his haunches.

Who acts: all, boggles, fool, squire · What happens: come, be, have, jump, pull back · To what, where: squire, horseback, horse, haunches

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, boggles, fool, squire), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sudden	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sudden	det
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 all	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 corner	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corner	det
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 all	nmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 squire	det
12	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 horseback	case
14	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 squire	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gallop	punct
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gallop	amod
17	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 squire	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 him	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 him	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 him	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boggles	det
22	boggles	boggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 him	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 him	cop
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fool	det
29	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 jump	mark
32	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pulled	punct
34	even	even	ADV	_	38 pulled	advmod
35	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 pulled	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 squire	det
37	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pulled	nsubj
38	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 jump	advcl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 horse	nmod:poss
40	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pulled	obj
41	back	back	ADV	_	38 pulled	advmod
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 haunches	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 haunches	nmod:poss
44	haunches	haunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pulled	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	all	the squire and full gallop	horseback		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location squire=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the boggles			after dust	tree rules
3	have	past	the fool				tree rules
4	jump	to-infinitive	the fool not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pull back	past	the squire	dust's horse	dust's haunches		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: «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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