The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 55

The husband’s horse, seeing this, neighed, and said to the mare: “Come along, make haste; why are you so slow?”

Who acts: horse, this, mare · What happens: see, neigh, say, come along, make, be · To what, where: this, mare, haste · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, this, mare), 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	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 husband	case
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seeing	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seeing	punct
6	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 seeing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 neighed	punct
9	neighed	neigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 seeing	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seeing	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 mare	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mare	det
15	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Come	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Come	punct
18	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 Come	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Come	conj
22	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 slow	punct
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 slow	advmod
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 slow	cop
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 slow	nsubj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 slow	advmod
28	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Come	conj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 Come	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 seeing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the husband's horse	this			tree rules
2	neigh	participle	this not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	the husband's horse not said here		the mare		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mare=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come along in a quote	infinitive				along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make in a quote	infinitive		haste			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product
6	is in a quote	present	the mare = mare			slow property	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: «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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