The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 14

Going as fast as the hobbles would allow, the colt turned into one of the wildest parts of the forest, while its rider sat trembling at the strange sights he saw.

Who acts: colt, hobbles, rider · What happens: go, allow, turn, sit, tremble, see · To what, where: strange sights

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt, hobbles, rider), 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	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 turned	advcl
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Going	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 allow	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hobbles	det
6	hobbles	hobble	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 allow	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 allow	aux
8	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fast	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 colt	det
11	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 turned	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 parts	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 parts	det
17	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 parts	amod
18	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 parts	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 sat	mark
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 rider	nmod:poss
25	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	conj
27	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 sights	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sights	det
30	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sights	amod
31	sights	sight	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 trembling	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 saw	nsubj
33	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sights	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	the colt not said here			fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	allow	would	the hobbles				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3	turn	past	the colt			into one of the wildest parts of the forest	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory
4	sit	past	bread's rider				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tremble	gerund	bread's rider not said here		the strange sights		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location
6	see	past	colt	the strange sights not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus

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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