The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 96

Then, jumping on the back of the mule, which was so glad to be out of the choking mud that he did not seem to mind the loss of his tail, the ungrateful wretch rode on, and that evening reached the inn at Evora, where the rich man and the farmer had already arrived for the night.

Who acts: mule, ungrateful wretch, evening, rich man · What happens: jump, be, not seem, mind, ride on, reach · To what, where: back, choking mud, loss, inn, Evora

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 (mule, ungrateful wretch, evening, rich man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 jumping	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 jumping	punct
3	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumping	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mule	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mule	det
9	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glad	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 glad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glad	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 glad	advmod
14	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mule	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	21 mud	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 mud	cop
17	out	out	ADP	_	21 mud	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 mud	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mud	det
20	choking	choking	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mud	compound
21	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glad	ccomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 seem	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seem	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seem	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 seem	advmod
26	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mud	acl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 mind	mark
28	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seem	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 loss	det
30	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mind	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 tail	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tail	nmod:poss
33	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 loss	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rode	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wretch	det
36	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wretch	amod
37	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rode	nsubj
38	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 loss	acl:relcl
39	on	on	ADV	_	38 rode	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 reached	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 reached	cc
42	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 evening	det
43	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reached	nsubj
44	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumping	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 inn	det
46	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reached	obj
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 Evora	case
48	Evora	Evora	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 inn	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 arrived	punct
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 arrived	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 man	det
52	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 man	amod
53	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 arrived	nsubj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 farmer	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 farmer	det
56	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 man	conj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 arrived	aux
58	already	already	ADV	_	59 arrived	advmod
59	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 inn	acl
60	for	for	ADP	_	62 night	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 night	det
62	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 arrived	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	gerund			the back of the mule	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
2	is	past	the mule				glad property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	the mule not said here		the choking mud			tree rules
4	not seem	past · do-support	mule	the choking mud not said here				tree rules
5	mind	to-infinitive	mule not said here	the loss of mule's tail				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Theme
6	ride on	past	the ungrateful wretch	the loss of mule's tail not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Theme
7	reach	past	that evening	the inn	Evora			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent inn=Theme at evora=Asset
8	arrive	past · perfect	the rich man and the farmer			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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