The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 17

But the horses’ heels struck the stones outside the gate, and up got the giant and strode after them.

Who acts: heels · What happens: strike, get, stride · To what, where: stones, giant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heels), 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	_	6 struck	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horses	det
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heels	nmod:poss
4	’	's	PART	_	3 horses	case
5	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 struck	nsubj
6	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stones	det
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 struck	obj
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 struck	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
14	up	up	ADV	_	15 got	advmod
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 struck	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 got	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 strode	cc
19	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 got	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 strode	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the horses's heels	the stones		outside the gate	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
2	get	past		the giant			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus
3	stride	past			after heels = heel		vn run-51.3.2-1 «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 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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