The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 4

So the youth did it again, and when he went up on the hill next year to look after his colt and the mares, each of the mares had her foal again; but the dappled colt was so big that when the lad wanted to feel its neck to see how fat it was, he could not reach up to it, it was so high, and it was so bright that the light glanced off its coat.

Who acts: youth, mares, dappled colt, lad, light · What happens: do, go up, look, have, dapple, be · To what, where: foal, hill, neck, lad, coat · Speech: someone speaks here

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, mares, dappled colt, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 went	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 hill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 year	amod
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl:unmarked
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	advcl
20	after	after	ADP	_	22 colt	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 colt	nmod:poss
22	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mares	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mares	det
25	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 had	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 each	punct
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 mares	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 mares	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mares	det
30	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 each	nmod
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 colt	acl:relcl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 foal	nmod:poss
33	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 foal	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 big	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 big	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 colt	det
38	dappled	dapple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 colt	amod
39	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 big	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 big	cop
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 big	advmod
42	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 wanted	mark
44	when	when	SCONJ	_	47 wanted	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 lad	det
46	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wanted	nsubj
47	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 reach	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 feel	mark
49	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 wanted	xcomp
50	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 neck	nmod:poss
51	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 feel	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 see	mark
53	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 feel	advcl
54	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	55 fat	advmod
55	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 see	ccomp
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 fat	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 fat	cop
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 wanted	punct
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 reach	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 reach	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 reach	advmod
62	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 big	parataxis
63	up	up	ADP	_	62 reach	compound:prt
64	to	to	ADP	_	65 it	case
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 reach	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 high	punct
67	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 high	nsubj
68	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 high	cop
69	so	so	ADV	_	70 high	advmod
70	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 big	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 bright	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 bright	cc
73	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 bright	nsubj
74	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	76 bright	cop
75	so	so	ADV	_	76 bright	advmod
76	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 big	conj
77	that	that	SCONJ	_	80 glanced	mark
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 light	det
79	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 glanced	nsubj
80	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	76 bright	advcl
81	off	off	ADP	_	80 glanced	compound:prt
82	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	83 coat	nmod:poss
83	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 glanced	obj
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the youth	foal			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	go up	past	youth			the hill	year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	look	to-infinitive	youth not said here				after youth's colt		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	past	the mares	Colt's foal					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient
5	dapple	participle							vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	the dappled colt					big property	tree rules
7	want	past	the lad						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	feel not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lad not said here	lad's neck					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
9	see	to-infinitive	the lad not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	is	past	lad					fat property	tree rules
11	not reach up	could	youth		lad				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	is	past	lad					high property	tree rules
13	is	past	lad					bright property	tree rules
14	glance off	past	the light	lad's coat					tree rules

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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