The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 37

The first time the youth rode at it he got a little way up the precipice, but then both Dapplegrim’s fore legs slipped, and down came horse and rider with a sound like thunder among the mountains.

Who acts: youth, fore legs · What happens: ride, get, slip, come · To what, where: end, little way, horse

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 (youth, fore legs), 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	3 time	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rode	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rode	nsubj
6	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rode	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rode	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	16 precipice	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 precipice	det
16	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slipped	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 slipped	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 slipped	advmod
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 Dapplegrim	det
21	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 legs	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Dapplegrim	case
23	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 legs	compound
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 slipped	nsubj
25	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rode	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
28	down	down	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rode	conj
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rider	cc
32	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 horse	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 sound	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 sound	det
35	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 thunder	case
37	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sound	nmod
38	among	among	ADP	_	40 mountains	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mountains	det
40	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the youth		at end; time		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	youth	a little way		up the precipice	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
3	slip	past	both Dapplegrim's fore legs		then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	come	past	the youth not said here	horse and rider		with a sound like thunder; among the mountains; down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=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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