The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 61

There he stopped, for no horse or mule that ever was born could climb that rock, and Bellah knew it, so she began to sing again:

Who acts: horse, Bellah · What happens: stop, bear, climb, know, begin, sing · To what, where: horse, rock

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, Bellah), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 stopped	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climb	nsubj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 mule	cc
9	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	conj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 born	nsubj:pass
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 born	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 born	aux:pass
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 horse	acl:relcl
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 climb	aux
15	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopped	ccomp
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 rock	det
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climb	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knew	cc
20	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 began	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sing	mark
28	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 sing	advmod
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stop	past	horse		there		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bear	past · passive		no horse or mule		ever	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	climb	could	no horse or mule	that rock			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=Theme
4	know	past	Bellah	rock			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	begin	past	Bellah				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Bellah not said here			again	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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