The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 12

They had not very far to go, but Moti’s little pony, weighted with a heavy man and two big rocks, soon began to lag behind the cavalry, and would have lagged behind the infantry too, only they were not very anxious to be too early in the fight, and hung back so as to give Moti plenty of time.

Who acts: ankles · What happens: have, go, weight, begin, lag, not be · To what, where: little pony, cavalry, infantry, fight, Moti plenty

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ankles), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 far	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 had	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 far	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weighted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 weighted	cc
10	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 pony	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Moti	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pony	amod
13	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weighted	nsubj:pass
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weighted	punct
15	weighted	weight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weighted	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rocks	cc
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 rocks	nummod
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rocks	amod
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 man	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 began	advmod
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lag	mark
28	lag	lag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 cavalry	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cavalry	det
31	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lag	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lagged	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lagged	cc
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lagged	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 lagged	aux
36	lagged	lag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 began	conj
37	behind	behind	ADP	_	39 infantry	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 infantry	det
39	infantry	infantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lagged	obl
40	too	too	ADV	_	36 lagged	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 anxious	punct
42	only	only	ADV	_	47 anxious	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 anxious	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 anxious	cop
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 anxious	advmod
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 anxious	advmod
47	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lagged	parataxis
48	to	to	PART	_	51 early	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 early	cop
50	too	too	ADV	_	51 early	advmod
51	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 anxious	advcl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 fight	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 fight	det
54	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 early	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 hung	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 hung	cc
57	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
58	back	back	ADV	_	57 hung	advmod
59	so	so	ADV	_	62 give	advmod
60	as	as	SCONJ	_	62 give	mark
61	to	to	PART	_	62 give	mark
62	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 hung	ccomp
63	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 plenty	compound
64	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 give	obj
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 time	case
66	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 plenty	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	ankles = ankle			far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	to-infinitive	ankles = ankle not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	weight	participle · passive		Moti's little pony		with a heavy man and two big rocks	vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with man=Theme
4	begin	past				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	lag	to-infinitive			the cavalry		tree rules
6	lag	would · perfect			the infantry		tree rules
7	not is	past	ankles = ankle			anxious property	tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive	ankles = ankle not said here		the fight	early property	tree rules
9	hang back	past	ankles = ankle not said here				tree rules
10	give	to-infinitive	ankles = ankle not said here	Moti plenty of time			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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