The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 143

Rough was its mane and dull was its skin, but the king cared nothing for that, and throwing his leg over the stick saddle, rode away like the wind.

Who acts: mane, king · What happens: be, care, throw, ride away · To what, where: dull skin, nothing, leg, stick saddle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mane, king), 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	Rough	rough	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mane	nmod:poss
4	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 skin	cc
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skin	amod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 skin	cop
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mane	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cared	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 cared	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cared	nsubj
14	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 cared	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 nothing	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 throwing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 throwing	cc
20	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cared	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 leg	nmod:poss
22	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throwing	obj
23	over	over	ADP	_	26 saddle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 saddle	det
25	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saddle	compound
26	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throwing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rode	punct
28	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cared	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 rode	advmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 wind	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wind	det
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rode	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	Gruagach's mane and Gruagach's dull skin			rough property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Gruagach's mane and Gruagach's dull skin not said here	Gruagach's dull skin			tree rules
3	care	past	the king	nothing		for that	tree rules
4	throw	gerund	the king not said here	King's leg	the stick saddle		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent leg=Theme over saddle=Destination
5	ride away	past	the king not said here			like the wind; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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