The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 94

But in reality it was not more than a few minutes before he came back, galloping furiously on a horse he had borrowed, and carrying a huge mirror across its neck.

Who acts: reality, lot · What happens: not be, come back, gallop, borrow, carry · To what, where: reality, horse, huge mirror, neck

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reality, lot), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 more	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 reality	case
3	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 more	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 more	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 came	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 minutes	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 minutes	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 minutes	amod
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 more	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 galloping	punct
17	galloping	gallop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
18	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	17 galloping	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 horse	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 galloping	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 borrowed	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 borrowed	aux
24	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 horse	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 carrying	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 carrying	cc
27	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 galloping	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mirror	det
29	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mirror	amod
30	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carrying	obj
31	across	across	ADP	_	33 neck	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 neck	nmod:poss
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carrying	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	reality		reality	minute	more property	tree rules
2	come back	past	lot					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gallop	gerund	lot not said here				on a horse; furiously property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory
4	borrow	past · perfect	lot	a horse not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5	carry	gerund	lot not said here	a huge mirror	reality's neck			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=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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