The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 69

'That can't really be a deer,' thought the prince to himself, reining in his horse and not attempting to follow her. '

Who acts: That, deer · What happens: not be, think, rein, not attempt, not follow · To what, where: deer, prince, horse

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, deer), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 deer	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 deer	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 deer	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 deer	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	8 deer	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 deer	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deer	det
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deer	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 deer	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reining	punct
17	reining	rein	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 thought	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 horse	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 horse	nmod:poss
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reining	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 attempting	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 attempting	advmod
23	attempting	attempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 reining	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 follow	mark
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 attempting	xcomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 follow	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 reining	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 reining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	can	That	a deer			tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	a deer	the prince	Deer		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme
3	rein	gerund	a deer not said here			in Deer's horse	tree rules
4	not attempt	gerund	a deer not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not follow	to-infinitive	a deer not said here	horse			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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