The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 70

“Oh! yes, if someone else mounts quickly and shoots the horse dead with the pistol that is sticking in the holster, then the young King is saved.

Who acts: someone, pistol · What happens: mount, shoot, stick, save · To what, where: horse, holster, young King

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, pistol), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 mounts	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 mounts	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 mounts	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 mounts	nsubj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 someone	advmod
9	mounts	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 mounts	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shoots	cc
12	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mounts	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoots	obj
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shoots	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 pistol	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pistol	det
18	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoots	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sticking	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sticking	aux
21	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 pistol	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 holster	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 holster	det
24	holster	holster	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sticking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saved	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 saved	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 King	amod
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 saved	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 saved	aux:pass
31	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shoots	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mounts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount in a quote	present	someone				quickly property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
2	shoot in a quote	present	someone not said here	the horse			with the pistol; dead property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with pistol=Instrument
3	stick in a quote	present · progressive	the pistol		the holster			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in holster=Destination
4	save in a quote	present · passive		the young King		then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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