The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 53

I turned my horse’s flank towards the shower, and, bending over his neck, held my shield so that it might cover his head and my own.

Who acts: I, shower · What happens: turn, bend, hold, cover · To what, where: flank, shower, neck, shield, head

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 (I, shower), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flank	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 horse	case
6	flank	flank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 shower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shower	det
9	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bending	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bending	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bending	punct
13	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turned	advcl
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 neck	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neck	nmod:poss
16	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bending	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 held	punct
18	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shield	nmod:poss
20	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 held	obj
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 cover	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cover	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cover	aux
25	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 held	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cover	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 own	cc
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 own	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cover	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	turn	past	I	my horse's flank	the shower	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flank=Theme towards shower=Trajectory
2	bend	gerund	I not said here		horse's neck	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over neck=Location
3	hold	past	I not said here	my shield		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Theme
4	cover	might	shower	horse's head		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination

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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