The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 13

The young man jogged along more and more slowly for some time, until at last, getting impatient at the slowness of the pony, he gave him such a tremendous thwack with his staff that the pony completely lost his temper and bolted.

Who acts: young man, pony · What happens: jog, get, give, lose, bolt, temper · To what, where: slowness, tremendous thwack, plenty, temper

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 (young man, pony), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jogged	nsubj
4	jogged	jog	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 jogged	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 slowly	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slowly	cc
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 slowly	advmod
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 jogged	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jogged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 last	punct
14	until	until	ADP	_	16 last	case
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jogged	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 getting	punct
18	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 last	advcl
19	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 getting	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 slowness	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 slowness	det
22	slowness	slowness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 getting	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 pony	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pony	det
25	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slowness	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jogged	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	iobj
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 thwack	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thwack	det
32	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thwack	amod
33	thwack	thwack	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 staff	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 staff	nmod:poss
36	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thwack	nmod
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 lost	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pony	det
39	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lost	nsubj
40	completely	completely	ADV	_	41 lost	advmod
41	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thwack	advcl
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 temper	nmod:poss
43	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lost	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 bolted	cc
45	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 lost	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jogged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jog	past	the young man				time	along, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	gerund	the young man not said here			the slowness of the pony		impatient property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	give	past	pony	such tremendous thwack	plenty			with pony's staff	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thwack=Theme
4	lose	past	the pony	pony's temper				completely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
5	bolt	participle	the pony not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	temper		pony						nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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