The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 39

And his horse cast up four sods with his four hoofs, like four swallows in the air about his head, now above, now below.

Who acts: horse · What happens: cast up · To what, where: four sods

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:3420): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 cast	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horse	nmod:poss
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	nsubj
4	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 cast	compound:prt
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sods	nummod
7	sods	sod	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cast	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hoofs	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hoofs	nmod:poss
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hoofs	nummod
11	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cast	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swallows	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 swallows	case
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 swallows	nummod
15	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sods	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swallows	nmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 air	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 above	punct
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 above	advmod
24	above	above	ADV	_	4 cast	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 below	punct
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 below	advmod
27	below	below	ADV	_	4 cast	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast up	past	youth's horse	four sods				like four swallows in the air about youth's head; with youth's four hoofs; above, below property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sod=Product

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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