Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 15

The place inspired her, and she reminded me of a wild Arab horse, that rushes headlong on with snorting nostrils and flying mane--her song was so light and yet so firm.

Who acts: place, wild Arab horse, snorting · What happens: inspire, remind, rush, snort, fly, be · To what, where: audience, me, nostrils, mane

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, wild Arab horse, snorting), 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 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inspired	nsubj
3	inspired	inspire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 inspired	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reminded	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 reminded	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reminded	nsubj
8	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inspired	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 reminded	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 horse	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
13	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reminded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rushes	punct
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 rushes	nsubj
17	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 horse	acl:relcl
18	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rushes	xcomp
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	31 light	mark
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 light	mark
21	snorting	snort	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 light	csubj
22	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 snorting	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flying	cc
24	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 snorting	conj
25	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flying	obj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 song	punct
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 song	nmod:poss
28	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mane	conj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 light	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 light	advmod
31	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rushes	advcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 firm	cc
33	yet	yet	ADV	_	35 firm	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 firm	advmod
35	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 light	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inspired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inspire	past	the place	audience				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	remind speech: other	past	place		me		of a wild Arab horse	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of horse=Topic
3	rush	present	a wild Arab horse				headlong property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	snort	gerund		nostrils				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nostril=Patient
5	fly	gerund		mane and place's song				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mane=Theme
6	is	past	snorting				light property	tree rules
7	be		snorting not said here			yet		tree rules
8	sing		place					nom song «communication intransitive»: 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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