The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 51

The youth seated himself on him, and once more they went their way, and for each hop that Dapplegrim made, down went the hill fifteen ells into the earth, and so they went on until there was no hill left for the King to see.

Who acts: youth, shoes, Dapplegrim, hill · What happens: seat, go, make, go on, be, leave · To what, where: youth, way, hop, hill, earth

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, shoes, Dapplegrim, hill), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	nsubj
3	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seated	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 went	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 hop	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 hop	det
19	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 made	mark
21	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hop	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 down	punct
24	down	down	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hill	det
27	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obj
28	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ells	nummod
29	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	obl:unmarked
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 earth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 earth	det
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
38	on	on	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
39	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 was	mark
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 was	expl
41	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 went	advcl
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 hill	det
43	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 was	nsubj
44	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 hill	acl
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 King	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 King	det
47	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 left	obl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 see	mark
49	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 left	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	the youth	youth		on King	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
2	go	past	shoes = shoe	shoes's way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	make	past	Dapplegrim	each hop not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Product
4	go	past	the youth not said here	the hill	the earth	for each hop; fifteen ells obl:unmarked; down property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme
5	go on	past	shoes = shoe				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be	past	no hill		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	leave	participle		no hill not said here		for the King	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for king=Recipient
8	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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