The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 156

When he was near the top of a hill he dismounted to let his horse graze, while Frisk amused himself by chasing flies.

Who acts: man, Frisk · What happens: be, dismount, let, amuse, chase, graze · To what, where: top, horse graze, man, flies

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Frisk), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 top	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 top	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 top	cop
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dismounted	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dismounted	nsubj
11	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 let	mark
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dismounted	ccomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 graze	nmod:poss
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 graze	compound
16	graze	graze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 amused	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 amused	mark
19	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 amused	nsubj
20	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dismounted	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 amused	obj
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 chasing	mark
23	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 amused	advcl
24	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 chasing	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dismounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man		the top	of a hill	tree rules
2	dismount	past	man				tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's horse graze			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graze=Theme
4	amuse	past	Frisk	man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
5	chase	gerund	Frisk not said here	flies			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
6	graze		man				nom graze «state transitive»: poss=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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