The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 15

The brothers were quite willing to do this; so the lad got such shoes for his horse that the sticks and stones flew high up into the air as he rode away over the hills, and such a gold saddle and such a gold bridle that they could be seen glittering and glancing from afar.

Who acts: brothers, lad, sticks, youth · What happens: be, do, get, fly, ride away, see · To what, where: this, such shoes, air, hills, brothers

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 (brothers, lad, sticks, youth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 willing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 willing	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 willing	advmod
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	xcomp
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 do	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lad	det
12	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 willing	parataxis
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shoes	amod
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 got	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 horse	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 horse	nmod:poss
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 flew	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sticks	det
21	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flew	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stones	cc
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sticks	conj
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	advcl
25	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 up	advmod
26	up	up	ADV	_	24 flew	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 air	det
29	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 rode	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rode	nsubj
32	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flew	advcl
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 rode	advmod
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 hills	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hills	det
36	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rode	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 saddle	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 saddle	cc
39	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	42 saddle	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 saddle	det
41	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 saddle	compound
42	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 willing	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 bridle	cc
44	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	47 bridle	det:predet
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 bridle	det
46	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bridle	compound
47	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 saddle	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 seen	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 seen	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 seen	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 seen	aux:pass
52	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 bridle	advcl
53	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 seen	xcomp
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 glancing	cc
55	glancing	glance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 glittering	conj
56	from	from	ADP	_	57 afar	case
57	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 glancing	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the brothers			willing property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
3	get	past	the lad	such shoes		for youth's horse	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme for horse=Beneficiary
4	fly	past	the sticks and stones			into the air result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result
5	ride away	past	youth		the hills	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Trajectory
6	see	could · passive		brothers = brother			tree rules
7	glitter	gerund	brothers = brother not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	glance	gerund	brothers = brother not said here			from afar	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from afar=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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