The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 54

Now Moti had never been on a horse in his life, and had so much ado to hold on with both hands as well as with both legs that the animal went just where it liked, and very soon broke into a break-neck gallop and made straight back to the serai where it had spent the last few nights.

Who acts: Moti, much ado, animal · What happens: have, not be, hold on, go, like, break · To what, where: life, much ado, legs, neck gallop, animal

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti, much ado, animal), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 horse	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 horse	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ado	amod
17	ado	ado	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hold	mark
19	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 hold	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 hands	det
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hold	obl
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	19 hold	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 legs	case
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 legs	case
28	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	29 legs	det
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hold	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 went	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 animal	det
32	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 legs	acl:relcl
34	just	just	ADV	_	35 where	advmod
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 liked	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 liked	nsubj
37	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 went	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 broke	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 broke	cc
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 soon	advmod
41	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 broke	advmod
42	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
43	into	into	ADP	_	48 gallop	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 gallop	det
45	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 neck	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 break	punct
47	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 gallop	compound
48	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 broke	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 made	cc
50	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 broke	conj
51	straight	straight	ADV	_	52 back	advmod
52	back	back	ADV	_	50 made	advmod
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 serai	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 serai	det
55	serai	serai	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 made	obl
56	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 spent	advmod
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 spent	nsubj:pass
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 spent	aux
59	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 serai	acl:relcl
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 nights	det
61	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 nights	amod
62	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 nights	amod
63	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 spent	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Moti			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			Moti's life		on a horse	tree rules
3	have	past	Moti not said here	much ado				tree rules
4	hold on	to-infinitive	much ado not said here				with both hands; as both legs	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	the animal	both legs				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
6	like	past	animal					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	break	past					into a neck gallop result; soon property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into gallop=Result
8	make	past					to the serai	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
9	spend	past · perfect · passive		animal		night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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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