The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 81

But when you have got to him you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear, and he will come home again.”

Who acts: you, horse · What happens: get, strike, come · To what, where: horse

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 strike	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 strike	csubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 strike	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 strike	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 strike	advmod
11	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strike	obj
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 ear	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ear	det
16	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ear	amod
17	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strike	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 strike	parataxis
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 strike	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	you		horse			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result
2	strike	must	you	the horse			beneath the left ear	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument
3	come	future	horse			again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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