The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 1

A mile further on they came to a wide common, with short, springy turf, where horses of all colours, with skins of satin, were kicking up their heels in play.

Who acts: mile, horses · What happens: come, kick up · To what, where: wide common, heels, play

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mile, horses), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mile	det
2	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
3	further	further	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 common	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 common	det
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 common	amod
10	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turf	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 turf	case
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 turf	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 short	punct
15	springy	springy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 turf	amod
16	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kicking	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 kicking	advmod
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 kicking	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 colours	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 colours	det
22	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 horses	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 skins	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 skins	case
25	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 colours	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 satin	case
27	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 skins	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 skins	punct
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 kicking	aux
30	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 turf	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 kicking	compound:prt
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heels	nmod:poss
33	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 kicking	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 play	case
35	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kicking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a mile			a wide common		with short springy turf; further property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to common=Initial_Location
2	kick up	past · progressive	horses of all colours	horses's heels		play			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heel=Patient in play=Location

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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