The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 54

She did not take time to pull it off, but, hastily unfastening her horse from the pillar, she rode away beyond the castle walls as swift as an arrow.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: not take, pull off, unfasten, ride away · To what, where: arm, horse

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pull	mark
7	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pull	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 pull	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 unfastening	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 unfastening	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 unfastening	punct
13	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	14 unfastening	advmod
14	unfastening	unfasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 take	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horse	nmod:poss
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 unfastening	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 pillar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pillar	det
19	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 unfastening	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rode	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rode	nsubj
22	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 rode	advmod
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	27 walls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 walls	det
26	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 walls	compound
27	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rode	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 swift	case
29	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rode	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 arrow	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 arrow	det
32	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rode	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support	daughter		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pull off	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	arm			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	unfasten	gerund	daughter not said here	daughter's horse		from the pillar; hastily property	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient from pillar=Co-Patient
4	ride away	past	daughter			beyond the castle walls; as swift; as a arrow; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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