The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 2

But it is time the horses were fed;’ and he fetched the hay, and gave it to them, and they bit and kicked him as before, till he lay half dead on the ground.

Who acts: threshold, soul, horses · What happens: be, feed, fetch, give, bite, kick · To what, where: time, horses, hay, threshold, soul, ground

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (threshold, soul, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 time	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 time	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	cop
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fed	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fed	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fed	aux:pass
8	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 fed	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 fed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fetched	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fetched	nsubj
13	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fed	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hay	det
15	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fetched	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fetched	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bit	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bit	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bit	nsubj
25	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fetched	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 kicked	cc
27	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bit	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kicked	obj
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 before	advmod
30	before	before	ADV	_	27 kicked	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lay	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 lay	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lay	nsubj
34	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kicked	conj
35	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	36 dead	advmod
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lay	advcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 ground	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ground	det
39	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	threshold	time				tree rules
2	feed	past · passive		the horses				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	fetch	past	soul	the hay				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Theme
4	give	past	soul not said here	threshold	horses = horse			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient
5	bite	past	horses = horse					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	kick	past	horses = horse not said here	soul			before property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	lie	past	soul			the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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