The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 108

He had gone some distance into the trees, after a naughty black cow which gave him more trouble than all the rest, when he heard the noise of horse’s feet, and peeping through the leaves he beheld the giant Rogear seated on his mare, with the colt trotting behind.

Who acts: Peronnik, naughty black cow, giant Rogear, colt, feet · What happens: go, give, hear, peep, behold, seat · To what, where: distance, trees, more trouble, Peronnik, noise

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, naughty black cow, giant Rogear, colt), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 distance	det
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cow	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	14 cow	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cow	det
12	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cow	amod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cow	amod
14	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	parataxis
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cow	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 trouble	amod
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 rest	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 rest	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trouble	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 heard	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 noise	det
29	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 feet	case
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 feet	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 horse	case
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 noise	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 beheld	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 beheld	cc
36	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 beheld	csubj
37	through	through	ADP	_	39 leaves	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 leaves	det
39	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 peeping	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 beheld	nsubj
41	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Rogear	det
43	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Rogear	amod
44	Rogear	Rogear	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 seated	nsubj
45	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 beheld	conj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 mare	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 mare	nmod:poss
48	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seated	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 colt	punct
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 colt	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 colt	det
52	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seated	obl
53	trotting	trot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 colt	acl
54	behind	behind	ADV	_	53 trotting	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Peronnik	some distance		the trees		tree rules
2	give	past	a naughty black cow	more trouble	Peronnik		than all rest	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trouble=Theme
3	hear	past	Peronnik	the noise of horse's feet				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
4	peep	gerund					through the leaves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through leaf=Theme
5	behold	past	Peronnik					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
6	seat	past	the giant Rogear				on Peronnik's mare; with the colt	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
7	trot	gerund	the colt not said here				behind property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	noise		horse's feet					nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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