The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 113

When this came to pass the steed broke through the stable door, and kicked him and woke him roughly.

Who acts: this, steed · What happens: come, pass, break, kick, wake · To what, where: stable door, steed

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, steed), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kicked	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steed	det
7	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pass	ccomp
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
11	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 door	amod
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kicked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kicked	cc
15	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kicked	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 woke	cc
18	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kicked	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 woke	obj
20	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	18 woke	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 kicked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	this				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	this not said here				tree rules
3	break	past	the steed		the stable door		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Location
4	kick	past		steed			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	wake	past		steed		roughly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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