The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 74

Peronnik heard, and, scarcely knowing what he did drew the colt into a slower pace.

Who acts: Peronnik · What happens: hear, know, do, draw · To what, where: colt · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Peronnik), 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	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knowing	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 knowing	cc
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 and	punct
6	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	7 knowing	advmod
7	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 heard	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 drew	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knowing	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colt	det
13	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drew	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 pace	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pace	det
16	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 pace	amod
17	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drew	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Peronnik			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	gerund	Peronnik not said here		scarcely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past	Peronnik			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	draw	past		the colt	into a slower pace result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent colt=Patient into pace=Result

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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