The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 12

This time the dappled horse was not unwilling to go away with the youth, so he mounted it, and when he came riding home to his brothers they all smote their hands together and crossed themselves, for never in their lives had they either seen or heard tell of such a horse as that.

Who acts: dappled horse, youth, brothers, lives · What happens: not unwill, go away, mount, come, ride, smite · To what, where: horse, hands

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 (dappled horse, youth, brothers, lives), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unwilling	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
4	dappled	dappled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unwilling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unwilling	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 unwilling	advmod
8	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 unwilling	xcomp
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 youth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youth	det
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mounted	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 mounted	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mounted	nsubj
18	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unwilling	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mounted	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 had	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 came	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 had	advcl
25	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 came	advcl
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 riding	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 brothers	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brothers	nmod:poss
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 riding	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smote	nsubj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 smote	advmod
32	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brothers	acl:relcl
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 smote	obj
35	together	together	ADV	_	32 smote	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 crossed	cc
37	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 smote	conj
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 crossed	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
40	for	for	ADP	_	44 lives	case
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 lives	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 lives	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 lives	nmod:poss
44	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mounted	conj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 seen	nsubj
47	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	48 seen	advmod
48	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 had	xcomp
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 tell	cc
50	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 tell	amod
51	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 seen	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 horse	case
53	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	55 horse	det:predet
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 horse	det
55	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 tell	nmod
56	as	as	ADP	_	57 that	case
57	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 seen	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 unwilling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not unwill	past · progressive	the dappled horse		time		tree rules
2	go away	to-infinitive	the dappled horse not said here			with the youth; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with youth=Beneficiary
3	mount	past	youth	horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	come	past	youth				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ride	gerund	youth not said here			to youth's brothers; home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to brother=Trajectory
6	smite	past	brothers = brother	brothers's hands		together property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer
7	cross	past	brothers = brother not said here	hands = hand			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
8	have	past	brothers's lives				tree rules
9	see	participle	lives = life			as that; either property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as that=Attribute
10	hear	participle					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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