The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 63

At last there came an old, grey-bearded man who looked at the horse and agreed to buy it; but the moment he touched it the horse began to kick and plunge. '

Who acts: old bearded man, man, moment · What happens: come, look, agree, buy, touch, begin · To what, where: horse

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old bearded man, man, moment), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 came	expl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bearded	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 grey	punct
10	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 horse	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 agreed	cc
18	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 buy	mark
20	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 agreed	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 buy	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 began	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 touched	nsubj
27	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 moment	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 touched	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touched	obj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 kick	mark
33	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 plunge	cc
35	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 kick	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a old bearded man		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	a old bearded man			at the horse	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at horse=Theme
3	agree speech: agree	past	a old bearded man not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	a old bearded man not said here	horse			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	touch	past	man	horse			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer horse=Result
6	begin	past	the moment				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	kick	to-infinitive	the moment not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
8	plunge	infinitive	the moment not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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