The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 10

He had already gone some miles when, to his great surprise, the horse spoke, and said: “It is no use your returning home just now, your father will only beat you.

Who acts: youth, horse, surprise, your, father · What happens: go, speak, say, be, return, beat · To what, where: miles, use, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, horse, surprise, your), 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 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 miles	det
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 surprise	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 surprise	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 surprise	nmod:poss
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 surprise	amod
12	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spoke	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spoke	nsubj
16	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprise	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spoke	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 use	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 use	punct
22	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 use	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 use	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 use	det
25	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 returning	nsubj
27	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 use	acl
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 returning	advmod
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 now	advmod
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 returning	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 beat	punct
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 beat	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 beat	aux
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 beat	advmod
36	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 use	parataxis
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 beat	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	youth	some miles			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	the horse				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the horse not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	surprise	no use			tree rules
5	return in a quote	gerund	your	no use not said here	now	home property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Theme
6	beat in a quote	future	your father	you			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
7	surprise		youth				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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