The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 106

However, it is time that the horses were fed;’ and he lifted down an armful of hay from a shelf of rock and held out a handful to each animal, who moved forward to meet him, leaving the king behind.

Who acts: stranger, giant, animal · What happens: be, feed, lift down, hold out, move forward, meet · To what, where: time, horses, armful, shelf, handful, giant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, giant, animal), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 time	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fed	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 fed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horses	det
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fed	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fed	aux:pass
10	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 fed	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 fed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lifted	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lifted	nsubj
15	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fed	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 lifted	compound:prt
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 armful	det
18	armful	armful	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lifted	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 hay	case
20	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 armful	nmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 shelf	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shelf	det
23	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lifted	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 rock	case
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shelf	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 held	cc
27	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fed	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 held	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 handful	det
30	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 animal	case
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 animal	det
33	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 moved	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 moved	nsubj
36	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 animal	acl:relcl
37	forward	forward	ADV	_	36 moved	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 meet	mark
39	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 moved	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 meet	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 leaving	punct
42	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 meet	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 king	det
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 leaving	obj
45	behind	behind	ADV	_	42 leaving	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	stranger	time		however property	tree rules
2	feed	past · passive		the horses			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	lift down	past	giant	a armful of hay	a shelf of rock		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent armful=Theme from shelf=Destination
4	hold out	participle		a handful		to each animal	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
5	move forward	past	each animal			forward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	meet	to-infinitive	each animal not said here	giant			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
7	leave	gerund	each animal not said here	the king		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme

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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