The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 27

‘So spake the man, and long did that night seem to me, and before dawn I rose and put on my armour, and mounted my horse and rode on till I reached the grassy space of which he had told me.

Who acts: you, I, horse · What happens: speak, seem, rise, put, mount, reach · To what, where: man, me, armour, horse, grassy space · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, horse), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 spake	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	3 spake	advmod
3	spake	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spake	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seem	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 long	cc
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seem	advcl
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seem	aux
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seem	obl:unmarked
12	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spake	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 seem	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rose	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rose	cc
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 dawn	case
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rose	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 rose	nsubj
20	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spake	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 rose	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 armour	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 armour	nmod:poss
25	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mounted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mounted	cc
28	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rose	conj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 horse	nmod:poss
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mounted	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rode	cc
32	rode	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 horse	conj
33	on	on	SCONJ	_	36 reached	mark
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 reached	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 reached	nsubj
36	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 mounted	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 space	det
38	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 space	amod
39	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reached	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 told	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 told	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 told	aux
44	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 space	acl:relcl
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 told	iobj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the man					tree rules
2	seem	past · do-support	you not said here		me		night		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	rise	past	I				dawn		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	put	participle	I not said here			my armour			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on armour=Destination
5	mount	past	I not said here	my horse and rode					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
6	reach	past	I	the grassy space					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	horse		me			of the grassy space	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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