The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 41

And the blades of grass bent not beneath him, so light were his horse’s feet as he journeyed toward the gate of Arthur’s palace.

Who acts: light, blades · What happens: bend, be, journey · To what, where: grass, gate

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 (light, blades), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 journeyed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blades	det
3	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 journeyed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 grass	case
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blades	nmod
6	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grass	acl
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 him	advmod
8	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 were	advmod
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 were	nsubj
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 journeyed	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horse	nmod:poss
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feet	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 horse	case
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 were	nsubj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 journeyed	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 journeyed	nsubj
20	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	toward	toward	ADP	_	23 gate	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gate	det
23	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 journeyed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 palace	case
25	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 palace	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Arthur	case
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gate	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 journeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	participle		grass not said here		beneath youth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath he=Location
2	be	past	light				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	journey	past	the blades of grass		the gate of Arthur's palace		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward gate=Trajectory

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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