The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 113

I was on the horse again, which was nothing but a big rag-weed, and I was in dread every minute I’d fall off; but nothing happened till I found myself in my own cabin.

Who acts: I, horse, minute, nothing · What happens: be, have, fall off, happen, find · To what, where: nothing, dread, minute, myself, own cabin

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, horse, minute, nothing), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 horse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 horse	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 horse	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 nothing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 nothing	cop
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 horse	appos
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 weed	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 weed	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weed	amod
14	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weed	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 rag	punct
16	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dread	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dread	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 dread	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dread	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 dread	case
22	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	conj
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 minute	det
24	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dread	obl:unmarked
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ’d	nsubj
26	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 minute	acl:relcl
27	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ’d	xcomp
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 fall	compound:prt
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 happened	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 happened	cc
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 happened	nsubj
32	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 horse	conj
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 found	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
35	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 happened	advcl
36	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 found	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 cabin	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 cabin	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cabin	amod
40	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 found	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 horse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			again	on the horse	tree rules
2	is a	past	the horse	nothing				tree rules
3	is	past	I		dread	minute		tree rules
4	have	past	I	every minute not said here				tree rules
5	fall off	infinitive	every minute not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	happen	past	nothing					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	find	past	I	myself	my own cabin			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic

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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