The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 40

This was too much for Moti’s excited pony, who shied so suddenly that Moti went flying over his head like a sky rocket, and alighted right on the top of his fat foe.

Who acts: This, excited pony, Moti · What happens: be, shy, go, fly, alight · To what, where: head, top

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 (This, excited pony, Moti), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 much	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 pony	case
6	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pony	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Moti	case
8	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pony	amod
9	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 much	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shied	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 shied	nsubj
12	shied	shy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pony	acl:relcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 suddenly	advmod
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 shied	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 went	mark
16	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shied	advcl
18	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 went	xcomp
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flying	obl
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 rocket	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 rocket	det
24	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rocket	compound
25	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flying	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 alighted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 alighted	cc
28	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shied	conj
29	right	right	ADV	_	32 top	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 top	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 top	det
32	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 alighted	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 foe	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 foe	nmod:poss
35	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 foe	amod
36	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 top	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	This		for Moti's excited pony; much property	tree rules
2	shy	past	Moti's excited pony		suddenly property	tree rules
3	go	past	Moti			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fly	gerund	Moti not said here	Moti's head	like a sky rocket	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location
5	alight	participle	Moti's excited pony not said here	the top of Moti's fat foe		tree rules

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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