The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 21

One evening he was bringing back his horses from the fields, and stopped at a little lake on the way home to let them drink.

Who acts: Jegu, horses · What happens: bring back, stop, let, drink · To what, where: horses, fields, little lake

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jegu, horses), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bringing	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bringing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bringing	aux
5	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 bringing	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horses	nmod:poss
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bringing	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 fields	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fields	det
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 horses	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stopped	cc
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bringing	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 lake	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lake	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lake	amod
18	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lake	nmod
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 way	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 let	mark
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stopped	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bringing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	bring back	past · progressive	Jegu	Jegu's horses	the fields	evening	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from field=Initial_Location
2	stop	past	Jegu not said here		a little lake on the way		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at lake=Location
3	let	to-infinitive	Jegu not said here	horses = horse			tree rules
4	drink	infinitive	horses = horse not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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