The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 2

‘Yes; now I heard it quite distinctly, and it neighed like a full-grown horse,’ answered the youth.

Who acts: I, it · What happens: hear, neigh, grow, answer · To what, where: it, youth

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 (I, it), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 heard	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 heard	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 distinctly	advmod
9	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 neighed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 neighed	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 neighed	nsubj
13	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	19 horse	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 horse	det
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grown	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 horse	amod
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 neighed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct
22	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 youth	det
24	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answered	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	it	now	distinctly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	neigh	past	it			like a grown horse	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past		the youth			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality

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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