The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 9

Just as the youth had flung all the hides with the spikes over Dapplegrim, and the tar over the field, and had got safely up into the spruce fir, a horse came with flame spouting from his nostrils, and the tar caught fire in a moment; and Dapplegrim and the horse began to fight until the stones leapt up to the sky.

Who acts: horse, flame, tar, Dapplegrim, stones · What happens: fling, get, come, spout, catch, begin · To what, where: youth, spruce fir, nostrils, fire

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 (horse, flame, tar, Dapplegrim), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 flung	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 flung	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flung	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flung	aux
6	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hides	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hides	det
9	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flung	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 spikes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spikes	det
12	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hides	nmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 Dapplegrim	case
14	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 spikes	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tar	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tar	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tar	det
18	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flung	obl
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 field	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 field	det
21	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tar	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 got	aux
25	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 flung	parataxis
26	safely	safely	ADV	_	27 up	advmod
27	up	up	ADV	_	25 got	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 fir	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fir	det
30	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fir	compound
31	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 horse	det
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fir	acl:relcl
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 flame	case
37	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
38	spouting	spout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 flame	acl
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 nostrils	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 nostrils	nmod:poss
41	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 spouting	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 caught	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 caught	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tar	det
45	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 caught	nsubj
46	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 got	conj
47	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 caught	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 moment	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 moment	det
50	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 caught	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 began	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 Dapplegrim	cc
53	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 began	nsubj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 horse	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 horse	det
56	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 Dapplegrim	conj
57	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flung	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 fight	mark
59	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 began	xcomp
60	until	until	SCONJ	_	63 leapt	mark
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 stones	det
62	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 leapt	nsubj
63	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 fight	advcl
64	up	up	ADP	_	63 leapt	compound:prt
65	to	to	ADP	_	67 sky	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 sky	det
67	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 leapt	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past · perfect · passive		the youth			the tar over the field obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination hide=Theme
2	get	past · perfect			the spruce fir			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into fir=Destination
3	come	past	a horse	the spruce fir not said here			with flame	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fir=Theme
4	spout	gerund	flame not said here		Dapplegrim's nostrils			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from nostril=Source
5	catch	past	the tar	fire		moment		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
6	begin	past	Dapplegrim and the horse					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	fight	to-infinitive	Dapplegrim and the horse not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	leapt up	present	the stones				to the sky	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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