The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 25

“Stop! stop!” cried the boy after him, and there was something in his voice that made the horse pull up.

Who acts: boy, something, horse · What happens: stop, cry, be, make, pull up · To what, where: stop, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, something, horse), 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 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
4	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stop	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	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 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 was	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 voice	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 voice	nmod:poss
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 something	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 something	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horse	det
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
24	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	xcomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 pull	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive		stop			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stop=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past	the boy			after boy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	something		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	past		the horse			tree rules
5	pull up	infinitive	the horse not said here				vn slide-11.2 «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 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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