The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 26

“Unhorsed! unhorsed!” cried the people; and Rosald then himself dismounted and helped his adversary to rise.

Who acts: people, Rosald, adversary · What happens: unhorse, cry, dismount, help, rise · To what, where: adversary · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Rosald, adversary), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Unhorsed	punct
2	Unhorsed	unhorse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Unhorsed	punct
4	unhorsed	unhorse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Unhorsed	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Unhorsed	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Unhorsed	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 dismounted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Rosald	cc
12	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dismounted	nsubj
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 dismounted	advmod
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 dismounted	nsubj
15	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 helped	cc
17	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dismounted	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 adversary	nmod:poss
19	adversary	adversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helped	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rise	mark
21	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 helped	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	unhorse in a quote	participle				tree rules
2	unhorse in a quote	participle				tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	the people			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dismount	past	Rosald		then	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	help	past	Rosald not said here	Rosald's adversary		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adversary=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	rise	to-infinitive	Rosald's adversary not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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