The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 103

But as they rode through the gate, which stood between the palace and the outer world, the colt swished her tail against the post, which shrieked loudly.

Who acts: deer, gate, colt, post · What happens: rode, stand, swish, shriek · To what, where: gate, palace, tail

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, gate, colt, post), 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	_	21 swished	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 rode	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	rode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 swished	advcl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gate	acl:relcl
11	between	between	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 world	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
16	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 world	amod
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 palace	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 colt	det
20	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swished	nsubj
21	swished	swish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tail	nmod:poss
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swished	obj
24	against	against	ADP	_	26 post	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 post	det
26	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swished	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shrieked	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 shrieked	nsubj
29	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 post	acl:relcl
30	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	29 shrieked	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 swished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rode	present	deer		the gate		tree rules
2	stand	past	the gate		the palace and the outer world		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between palace=Location
3	swish	past	the colt	colt's tail		against the post	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme
4	shriek	past	the post			loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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