The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 59

‘Nonsense! it is our horse,’ answered one of the Afghans beginning to untie the bridle.

Who acts: Nonsense, horse, Afghans · What happens: be, answer, begin, untie · To what, where: horse, one, bridle

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 (Nonsense, horse, Afghans), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horse	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	acl:relcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 answered	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Afghans	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Afghans	det
14	Afghans	Afghan	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	beginning	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 Afghans	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 untie	mark
17	untie	untie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 beginning	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bridle	det
19	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 untie	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Nonsense	our horse	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	our horse not said here	one of the Afghans	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
3	begin	gerund	the Afghans not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	untie	to-infinitive	the Afghans not said here	the bridle	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Patient

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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