Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 24

But the horse would never allow any one to mount him but his master.

Who acts: horse, one · What happens: not allow, mount · To what, where: one, horse

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, one), 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	_	6 allow	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 allow	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 allow	advmod
6	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allow	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 mount	mark
10	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allow	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mount	obj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 master	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 him	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	would	the horse	any one					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer one=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	mount not said to happen	to-infinitive	any one not said here	horse					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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