The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 36

Just then out of a cloud of dust in the distance the king saw Moti approaching at a hard gallop, looking indeed like a giant compared with the little beast he rode, whirling his castor-oil plant, which in the distance might have been an oak tree, and the sound of his revilings and shoutings came down upon the breeze!

Who acts: king, Moti, castor oil plant, sound · What happens: see, approach, look, compare, ride, whirl · To what, where: Moti, cloud, hard gallop, giant compared little beast, castor oil plant, oak tree

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 (king, Moti, castor oil plant, sound), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 saw	advmod
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dust	case
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloud	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 distance	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 distance	det
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloud	nmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
16	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 saw	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 gallop	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gallop	det
19	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gallop	amod
20	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 approaching	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looking	punct
22	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 approaching	conj
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	22 looking	advmod
24	like	like	SCONJ	_	31 beast	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 beast	det
26	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beast	amod
27	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 beast	amod
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 beast	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beast	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beast	amod
31	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looking	xcomp
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rode	nsubj
33	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 beast	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 whirling	punct
35	whirling	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 approaching	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 plant	nmod:poss
37	castor	castor	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 plant	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 castor	punct
39	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 plant	compound
40	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 whirling	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 tree	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 tree	nsubj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 distance	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 distance	det
45	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 tree	obl
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 tree	aux
47	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 tree	aux
48	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 tree	cop
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 tree	det
50	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 tree	compound
51	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 plant	appos
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 came	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 came	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 sound	det
55	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 came	nsubj
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 revilings	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 revilings	nmod:poss
58	revilings	reviling	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 sound	nmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 shoutings	cc
60	shoutings	shouting	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 revilings	conj
61	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
62	down	down	ADV	_	61 came	advmod
63	upon	upon	ADP	_	65 breeze	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 breeze	det
65	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 came	obl
66	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the king	Moti	a cloud of dust in the distance	then		tree rules
2	approach	gerund	Moti not said here		a hard gallop			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	Moti not said here	a giant compared little beast			indeed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	compare	participle						vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	ride	past	king	a giant compared little beast not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
6	whirl	gerund	Moti not said here	king's castor oil plant				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
7	is a	might · perfect	king's castor oil plant	a oak tree			in the distance	tree rules
8	come down	past	the sound of king's revilings and shoutings		the breeze		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon breeze=Location
9	cloud			dust			in the distance	nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient in=obl

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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