The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 1

Next year, when he came home again to look after his mares and the foal, it was as fat as it could be, and its coat shone with brightness, and it was so big that the lad had the greatest difficulty in getting on its back, and each of the mares had another foal.

Who acts: he, foal, coat, lad, greatest difficulty, each · What happens: come, look, be, shine, have, get · To what, where: coat, greatest difficulty, back, foal

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, foal, coat, lad), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 year	amod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 year	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 came	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 mares	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mares	nmod:poss
13	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 foal	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foal	det
16	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mares	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fat	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fat	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fat	cop
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 fat	advmod
21	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 be	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 be	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 be	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 fat	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shone	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shone	cc
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 coat	nmod:poss
29	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shone	nsubj:pass
30	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	parataxis
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 brightness	case
32	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shone	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 big	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 big	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 big	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 big	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 big	advmod
38	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shone	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 had	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lad	det
41	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 big	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 difficulty	det
44	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 difficulty	amod
45	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
46	in	in	SCONJ	_	47 getting	mark
47	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 difficulty	acl
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 back	case
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 back	nmod:poss
50	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 getting	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 had	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 had	cc
53	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	57 had	nsubj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 mares	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 mares	det
56	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 each	nmod
57	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
58	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	59 foal	det
59	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 had	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he			again; year	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	he not said here			after his mares and the foal		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	foal				fat property	tree rules
4	shine	participle · passive		foal's coat			with brightness	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	is	past	coat				big property	tree rules
6	have	past	the lad	the greatest difficulty				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
7	get	gerund	the greatest difficulty not said here		foal's back			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
8	have	past	each	another foal				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient

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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