The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 111

Then the bed sped on as if drawn by six horses, over thresholds and stairs, up this way and down that.

What happens: speed on, draw · To what, where: bed, thresholds

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bed	det
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sped	nsubj:pass
4	sped	speed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 sped	compound:prt
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 drawn	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 drawn	mark
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sped	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 horses	case
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 horses	nummod
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thresholds	punct
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 thresholds	case
14	thresholds	threshold	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stairs	cc
16	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thresholds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 way	punct
18	up	up	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drawn	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 down	cc
22	down	down	ADP	_	20 way	compound
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 down	fixed
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed on	participle · passive		the bed			then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	draw	participle				thresholds and stairs		by six horses; up this way	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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