The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 12

When the youth saw that, he was not long in getting down from the tree and flinging the bridle over the horse’s head, and then he became so tame that he might have been led by a thin string.

Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim, thin string · What happens: see, not be, get down, fling, become, lead · To what, where: tree, bridle, head, Dapplegrim · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, Dapplegrim, thin string), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 long	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 that	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 long	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	ccomp
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 getting	mark
12	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 long	advcl
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 getting	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 getting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flinging	cc
18	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 getting	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bridle	det
20	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flinging	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	25 head	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horse	det
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 head	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 horse	case
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flinging	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 became	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 became	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 tame	advmod
32	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 became	xcomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 led	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 led	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 led	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 led	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 led	aux:pass
38	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 tame	advcl
39	by	by	ADP	_	42 string	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 string	det
41	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 string	amod
42	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 led	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the youth					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	past	Dapplegrim				long property	tree rules
3	get down	gerund	Dapplegrim not said here		the tree		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	fling	gerund	Dapplegrim not said here	the bridle	the horse's head			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme over head=Destination
5	become	past	Dapplegrim			then	tame property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	lead	might · perfect · passive	a thin string	Dapplegrim				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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