The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 16

The young man hesitated for a moment, but before he could speak, the horse contrived to whisper to him:

Who acts: man, young man · What happens: hesitate, speak, contrive, whisper · To what, where: young man, horse · 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 (man, young man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 contrived	nsubj
4	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hesitated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 contrived	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 contrived	cc
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 speak	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 contrived	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 contrived	nsubj
17	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 whisper	mark
19	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 contrived	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 whisper	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 contrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hesitate	participle		the young man not said here		moment	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	could	man				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	contrive	past	the young man				tree rules
4	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	the young man not said here		horse		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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