The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 84

At that she took off the bridle; but nearly fainted with astonishment when the horse turned into a dove and flew away just as the old man came out of the house.

Who acts: girl, horse, old man · What happens: take off, faint, turn, fly away, come out · To what, where: bridle, that, dove, house

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 (girl, horse, old man), 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 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 took	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bridle	det
7	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 fainted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 fainted	cc
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 fainted	advmod
11	fainted	faint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 astonishment	case
13	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fainted	obl
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 turned	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fainted	advcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 dove	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dove	det
20	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 turned	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 flew	advmod
24	just	just	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flew	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 house	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take off	past	girl	the bridle	that		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme
2	faint	participle	girl not said here			with astonishment; nearly property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn	past	the horse		a dove		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into dove=Trajectory
4	fly away	past	the horse not said here			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come out	past	the old man	the house			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result

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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