The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 73

But he could hardly hold the horse, it became so unmanageable.

Who acts: Peder, horse · What happens: hold, become · 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 (Peder, horse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 hold	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 unmanageable	advmod
12	unmanageable	unmanageable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 became	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	could	Peder	the horse				hardly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	become	past	horse					unmanageable property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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