The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 8

But it is late, and I must feed the horses;’ and he brought them the hay, but they only bit and kicked him as before, and if his soul had been within him, they would have killed him outright.

Who acts: threshold, I, soul, horses · What happens: be, feed, bring, bite, kick, kill · To what, where: horses, soul

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, I, 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 late	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feed	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 feed	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 feed	aux
9	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 late	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horses	det
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 feed	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 feed	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hay	det
19	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bit	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 bit	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bit	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 bit	advmod
24	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kicked	cc
26	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bit	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kicked	obj
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 before	advmod
29	before	before	ADV	_	26 kicked	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 killed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 killed	cc
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 him	mark
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 soul	nmod:poss
34	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 him	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 him	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 him	cop
37	within	within	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 killed	nsubj:pass
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 him	punct
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 killed	nsubj:pass
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 killed	aux
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 killed	aux
43	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bit	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 killed	obj
45	outright	outright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 killed	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	threshold			late property	tree rules
2	feed	must	I		the horses		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient
3	bring	past	soul	horses = horse			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination hay=Theme
4	bite	past	horses = horse				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	kick	past	horses = horse not said here	soul		before property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	soul's soul			within soul	tree rules
7	kill	would · perfect · passive		soul		outright property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result

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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