The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 20

It was lucky that the horse was sure-footed and knew the road, for his bridle hung loose on his neck, and his master took no heed of the way he was going.

Who acts: kitchen, horse, bridle, master · What happens: be, know, hang, take, go, heed · To what, where: road, neck, heed, way

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen, horse, bridle, master), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lucky	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lucky	cop
3	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 footed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 footed	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 footed	cop
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 footed	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sure	punct
10	footed	footed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lucky	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 footed	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 road	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knew	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hung	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 hung	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bridle	nmod:poss
18	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hung	nsubj
19	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knew	parataxis
20	loose	loose	ADV	_	19 hung	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 neck	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neck	nmod:poss
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hung	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 master	nmod:poss
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hung	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 heed	det
30	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 way	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heed	nmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 going	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 way	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lucky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	kitchen			lucky property	tree rules
2	is	past	the horse			footed property	tree rules
3	know	past	the horse not said here	the road			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus
4	hang	past	horse's bridle		horse's neck	loose property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location
5	take	past	horse's master	no heed of the way			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
6	go	past · progressive	horse	the way not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
7	heed			the way			nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=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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