The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 22

So he made haste, and took out his steel for striking fire, and threw it over the horse, and then it had no power to stir from the spot, and became so tame that the boy could do what he liked with it.

Who acts: horse, fire, boy · What happens: make, take out, strike, throw, have, stir · To what, where: haste, steel, fire, power, spot

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, fire, boy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 took	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 steel	nmod:poss
10	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 striking	mark
12	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 took	advcl
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 striking	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 horse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 had	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 power	det
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stir	mark
29	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	advcl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 spot	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spot	det
32	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stir	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 became	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 became	cc
35	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 tame	advmod
37	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 became	xcomp
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 do	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boy	det
40	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 do	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 tame	ccomp
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 do	obj
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 liked	nsubj
45	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 what	acl:relcl
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 liked	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	horse	haste				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
2	take out	past	horse not said here	horse's steel				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steel=Theme
3	strike	gerund	horse not said here	fire				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
4	throw	past	horse not said here	fire			over the horse	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over horse=Destination
5	have	past	fire	no power		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
6	stir	to-infinitive	fire not said here		the spot			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	become	past	horse not said here				tame property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	do	could	the boy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
9	like	past	boy				with fire	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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