The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 87

But at the moment when it was least expected the beautiful horse began to plunge and rear and kick, and finally to run away at such a pace that it was impossible to stop him.

What happens: expect, begin, plunge, rear, kick, run away · To what, where: state, 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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 expected	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 expected	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 expected	aux:pass
8	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 expected	advmod
9	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 moment	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expected	obj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 plunge	mark
15	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rear	cc
17	rear	rear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 plunge	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kick	cc
19	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 plunge	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 run	cc
22	finally	finally	ADV	_	24 run	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 run	mark
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 run	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 pace	case
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 pace	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pace	det
29	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 run	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 impossible	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 impossible	expl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 impossible	cop
33	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 run	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 stop	mark
35	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 impossible	csubj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stop	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past · passive	state		least property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme horse=Eventuality
2	begin	past		moment		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	plunge	to-infinitive				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	rear	infinitive				vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	kick	infinitive				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	run away	to-infinitive			at such pace; away, finally property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory
7	is	past			impossible property	tree rules
8	stop	to-infinitive	horse			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality

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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