The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 14

The horse that fell was strained in the shoulder; but the rider was not hurt, and I repaired my handkerchief as well as I could.

Who acts: horse, I · What happens: fall, strain, not hurt, repair · To what, where: horse, shoulder, rider, handkerchief

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strained	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 horse	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strained	aux:pass
6	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 shoulder	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoulder	det
9	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strained	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hurt	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 hurt	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rider	det
13	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hurt	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hurt	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hurt	advmod
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 strained	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 repaired	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 repaired	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 repaired	nsubj
20	repaired	repair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strained	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 handkerchief	nmod:poss
22	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 repaired	obj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 well	advmod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 repaired	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 could	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 well	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 strained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the horse				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strain	past · passive		the horse	the shoulder		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	not hurt	past · passive		the rider			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	repair	past	I	my handkerchief		well property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient

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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