The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 118

When he got up there and found them, each mare had her foal, and by the side of one of them was a big dapple-grey foal as well, which was so sleek that it shone again.

Who acts: youth, mare, one, big grey foal, foal · What happens: get up, find, have, be, shine · To what, where: mares, foal

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, mare, one, big grey foal), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	advcl
4	up	up	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 mare	det
11	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foal	nmod:poss
14	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 side	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 side	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	30 foal	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 foal	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 foal	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 foal	det
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 foal	amod
27	dapple	dapple	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grey	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 dapple	punct
29	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 foal	amod
30	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 side	nmod
31	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	30 foal	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 as	fixed
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sleek	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 sleek	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sleek	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 sleek	advmod
37	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 foal	parataxis
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 shone	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shone	nsubj
40	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sleek	advcl
41	again	again	ADV	_	40 shone	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	youth		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	past	youth not said here	mares = mare				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	have	past	each mare	mother's foal			by the side	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient
4	is	past	one of mares				of a big grey foal	tree rules
5	is	past	a big grey foal				sleek property	tree rules
6	shine	past	foal			again		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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