The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 29

The horses, thus left without any control, dashed blindly against a tree, and the queen was flung out on the ground, where she lay for some minutes unconscious.

Who acts: horses, queen · What happens: leave, dash, fling out, lie · To what, where: horses, tree, queen, ground

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, queen), 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 horses	det
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dashed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 horses	acl
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 control	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 control	det
8	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 horses	punct
10	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	blindly	blindly	ADV	_	10 dashed	advmod
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dashed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flung	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flung	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 queen	det
18	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flung	aux:pass
20	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 dashed	parataxis
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 flung	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 lay	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flung	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 unconscious	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 unconscious	det
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 unconscious	compound
32	unconscious	unconscious	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		the horses not said here		without any control; thus property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dash	past	the horses		a tree	blindly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against tree=Trajectory
3	fling out	past · passive		the queen	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination
4	lie	past	queen			for some minutes unconscious	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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