The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 18

He roared and he shouted, and the more he shouted, the faster ran the horses, and just as the day was breaking he was only twenty perches behind.

Who acts: giant, faster, day · What happens: roar, shout, run, break, be · To what, where: horses

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 (giant, faster, day), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 roared	nsubj
2	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shouted	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shouted	nsubj
5	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 roared	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shouted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shouted	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 more	det
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 shouted	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shouted	nsubj
11	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 roared	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 faster	det
14	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shouted	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horses	det
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ran	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 breaking	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 breaking	cc
20	just	just	ADV	_	25 breaking	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 breaking	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 breaking	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 breaking	aux
25	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 roared	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 perches	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 perches	cop
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 twenty	advmod
29	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 perches	nsubj
30	perches	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 breaking	advcl
31	behind	behind	ADV	_	30 perches	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roar	past	giant			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	shout speech: express	past	giant			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shout speech: express	past	giant			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run	past	the faster	the horses		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Agent
5	break	past · progressive	the day			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	giant		behind, perch property	tree rules

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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