The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 94

The instant he heard the Stalo music he wished himself to become the feet of a reindeer, and in this guise he galloped like the wind for several miles.

Who acts: instant · What happens: hear, wish, become, gallop · To what, where: Stalo music, instant, feet, guise

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instant), 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 instant	det
2	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 music	det
6	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 music	compound
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wished	nsubj
9	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 music	acl:relcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 wished	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 become	mark
12	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wished	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feet	det
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 reindeer	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 reindeer	det
17	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feet	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 galloped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 galloped	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 guise	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 guise	det
22	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 galloped	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 galloped	nsubj
24	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 wind	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 galloped	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 miles	case
29	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 miles	amod
30	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 galloped	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the instant	the Stalo music			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
2	wish	past	instant	instant			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
3	become	to-infinitive	instant not said here	the feet of a reindeer			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	gallop	past	instant		this guise	like the wind; for several miles	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Trajectory

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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