The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 117

So the youth, well pleased with this, thanked them, and at once set off to the hill where the twelve mares were at pasture.

Who acts: youth, twelve mares · What happens: thank, set off, be · To what, where: mares, hill, pasture

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, twelve mares), 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	_	10 thanked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pleased	punct
5	well	well	INTJ	_	6 pleased	discourse
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 youth	amod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pleased	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 youth	punct
10	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thanked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 set	obl
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thanked	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 hill	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hill	det
20	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 pasture	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mares	det
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 mares	nummod
24	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pasture	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pasture	cop
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 pasture	case
27	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hill	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the youth	mares = mare		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	set off	participle	the youth not said here		the hill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
3	is	past	the twelve mares		pasture	tree rules

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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