The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 105

Men red as copper galloped over the immense green prairies and shot their arrows at the buffaloes, who turned against them with their sharp horns.

Who acts: Men, buffaloes · What happens: gallop, shoot, turn · To what, where: immense green prairies, arrows, buffaloes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men, buffaloes), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 galloped	nsubj
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Men	amod
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 copper	case
4	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 red	obl
5	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	10 prairies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prairies	det
8	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prairies	amod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prairies	amod
10	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 galloped	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shot	cc
12	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 galloped	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arrows	nmod:poss
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shot	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 buffaloes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 buffaloes	det
17	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shot	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 turned	nsubj
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 buffaloes	acl:relcl
21	against	against	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 horns	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 horns	nmod:poss
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 horns	amod
26	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turned	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 galloped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gallop	past	Men		the immense green prairies		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over prairie=Trajectory
2	shoot	past	Men not said here	prairies's arrows	the buffaloes		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at buffalo=Destination
3	turn	past	the buffaloes			against buffaloes = buffalo; with buffaloes's sharp horns	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against they=Trajectory

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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