The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 11

And sometimes he looked at the tar, but at last the flames began to rise, for wheresoever the strange horse bit or wheresoever he kicked he hit upon the spikes in the hides, and at length he had to yield.

Who acts: Dapplegrim, last · What happens: look, begin, rise, kick, hit, have · To what, where: hides, length

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dapplegrim, last), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 looked	cc
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 looked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 tar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tar	det
7	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 began	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flames	det
13	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 last	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rise	mark
16	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bit	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	23 bit	case
19	wheresoever	wheresoever	ADV	_	23 bit	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bit	det
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bit	amod
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bit	compound
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kicked	obl:unmarked
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 wheresoever	cc
25	wheresoever	wheresoever	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bit	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kicked	nsubj
27	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hit	nsubj
29	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kicked	ccomp
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 spikes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spikes	det
32	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hit	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 hides	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hides	det
35	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hit	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 had	cc
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 length	case
39	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kicked	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 yield	mark
43	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 had	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Dapplegrim		at the tar; sometimes property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tar=Theme
2	begin	past	last			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	rise	to-infinitive	last not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kick	past	Dapplegrim		for the strange horse bit or wheresoever	tree rules
5	hit	past	Dapplegrim	the hides	upon the spikes	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	Dapplegrim	length		tree rules
7	yield	to-infinitive	Dapplegrim not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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