The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 39

And the colt laughed, and became a fox again and galloped away to the sea shore, where Ian Direach, and the princess and the real colt and the White Sword of Light were awaiting him.

Who acts: colt, princess · What happens: laugh, become, gallop away, await · To what, where: fox, sea shore, colt

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt, princess), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 laughed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colt	det
3	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	xcomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 became	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 galloped	cc
12	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 galloped	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 shore	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shore	compound
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 galloped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Direach	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 Direach	advmod
20	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Direach	compound
21	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 shore	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 awaiting	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 awaiting	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 awaiting	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 colt	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 colt	det
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 colt	amod
29	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 princess	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Sword	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Sword	det
32	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Sword	amod
33	Sword	Sword	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 princess	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Light	case
35	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Sword	nmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 awaiting	aux
37	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laughed	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 awaiting	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the colt					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	the colt not said here	a fox		again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	gallop away	past	the colt not said here		the sea shore		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination
4	await	past · progressive	the princess and the real colt and the White Sword of Light	colt				tree rules

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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