The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 120

At last she gave a start, and “By this and by that,” says she, “here they come, bridles jingling and feathers tossing!”

Who acts: last, road, bridles · What happens: give, say, come, jingle, toss · To what, where: start, bridles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (last, road, bridles), 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	4 gave	mark
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 start	det
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 this	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 this	cc
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 this	punct
10	By	by	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 gave	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 says	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 says	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 that	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 that	punct
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 says	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bridles	punct
25	bridles	bridle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	obl
26	jingling	jingle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 bridles	acl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 feathers	cc
28	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bridles	conj
29	tossing	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 bridles	acl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 tossing	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	last	a start		by this	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Theme
2	say speech: express	present	last not said here			by that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present	road	bridles and feathers	here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	jingle in a quote	gerund	bridles and feathers not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	toss in a quote	gerund	bridles and feathers not said here				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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