The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 71

As it was very spirited he led it by the bridle, and this arrangement enabled him to turn and look at the Princess often, which he did not fail to do.

Who acts: horse, arrangement · What happens: spirit, lead, enable, turn, look, not fail · To what, where: palace, horse

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, arrangement), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 spirited	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spirited	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spirited	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 spirited	advmod
5	spirited	spirit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 led	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 led	nsubj
7	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 led	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 bridle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bridle	det
11	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 enabled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 enabled	cc
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 arrangement	det
15	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enabled	nsubj
16	enabled	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 led	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 enabled	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 turn	mark
19	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 enabled	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 look	cc
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 turn	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 Princess	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl
25	often	often	ADV	_	21 look	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fail	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fail	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fail	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fail	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 fail	advmod
31	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 look	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fail	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spirit	past · passive		palace		tree rules
2	lead	past	horse	palace	by the bridle	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by bridle=Destination
3	enable	past	this arrangement	horse		tree rules
4	turn	to-infinitive	horse not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	look	infinitive	horse not said here		at the Princess; often property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at princess=Theme
6	not fail	past · do-support	horse			tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive	horse not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP 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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