The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 79

Here the knight dashed across the bridge that spanned the moat, and entered the gate, but as soon as he was safe inside, the drawbridge was pulled up and caught Owen’s horse in the middle, so that half of him was inside and half out, and Owen could not dismount and knew not what to do.

Who acts: knight, bridge, blow, half, Owen · What happens: dash, span, enter, be, pull up, catch · To what, where: bridge, moat, gate, drawbridge, horse, middle

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 (knight, bridge, blow, half), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dashed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dashed	nsubj
4	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 bridge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dashed	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 spanned	nsubj
9	spanned	span	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bridge	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moat	det
11	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spanned	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 entered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 entered	cc
14	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dashed	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 entered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pulled	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 pulled	cc
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 pulled	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 safe	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 safe	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 safe	cop
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 soon	advcl
25	inside	inside	ADV	_	24 safe	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pulled	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 drawbridge	det
28	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pulled	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pulled	aux:pass
30	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 entered	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 pulled	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 caught	cc
33	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dashed	conj
34	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 horse	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Owen	case
36	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 caught	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 middle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 middle	det
39	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 caught	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 inside	punct
41	so	so	SCONJ	_	47 inside	mark
42	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 half	det
43	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	47 inside	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 half	nmod
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 inside	cop
47	inside	inside	ADV	_	33 caught	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 out	cc
49	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	50 out	advmod
50	out	out	ADV	_	47 inside	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 dismount	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 dismount	cc
53	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 dismount	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 dismount	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 dismount	advmod
56	dismount	dismount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dashed	conj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 knew	cc
58	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 dismount	conj
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 knew	advmod
60	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	58 knew	ccomp
61	to	to	PART	_	62 do	mark
62	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 what	acl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dash	past	the knight		the bridge; here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across bridge=Trajectory
2	span	past	the bridge	the moat			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moat=Co-Theme
3	enter	past	the knight not said here	the gate			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination
4	is	past	blow			inside, safe property	tree rules
5	pull up	past · passive		the drawbridge		soon property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	catch	past	the knight not said here	Owen's horse	the middle		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
7	is	past	that half of blow			inside property	tree rules
8	not dismount	could	Owen				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	not know	past	Owen not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	do	to-infinitive	Owen not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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