Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 30

He mounted the Billy-goat, pressed his heels into its sides, and galloped down the high street like a hurricane.

Who acts: goat · What happens: mount, press, gallop down · To what, where: Billy goat, heels, sides, high street

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat), 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	2 mounted	nsubj
2	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goat	det
4	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 goat	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Billy	punct
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mounted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pressed	punct
8	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mounted	parataxis
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heels	nmod:poss
10	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pressed	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sides	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sides	nmod:poss
13	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pressed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 galloped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 galloped	cc
16	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mounted	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 galloped	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 street	det
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 street	amod
20	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 galloped	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 hurricane	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hurricane	det
23	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 street	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mount	past	goat	the Billy goat			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
2	press	past		goat's heels	country's sides		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Theme
3	gallop down	past	goat not said here	the high street		like a hurricane	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=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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