The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 20

A black horse was waiting for him, tied to a tree, and he mounted and rode away wherever his fancy took him, the dog always at his heels.

Who acts: black horse, horse, fancy, king · What happens: wait, tie, mount, ride away, take, fancy · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black horse, horse, fancy, king), 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	3 horse	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	aux
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waiting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tied	punct
9	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 waiting	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mounted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mounted	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mounted	nsubj
16	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rode	cc
18	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mounted	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 rode	advmod
20	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	23 took	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fancy	nmod:poss
22	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rode	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dog	det
27	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 heels	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 heels	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heels	nmod:poss
31	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dog	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	a black horse		for king	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tie	participle	a black horse not said here		to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=Co-Patient
3	mount	past	horse			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	ride away	past	horse not said here		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	take	past	king's fancy	king	wherever property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme dog=Destination
6	fancy		king			nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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