The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 105

He let himself slide to the earth, and lay down beside his horse, his throat burning, his chest heaving, and his head going round.

Who acts: adventurer, throat, head · What happens: let, slide, lay down, burn, go round, heave · To what, where: adventurer, earth, chest heaving

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventurer, throat, head), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 let	obj
4	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slide	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lay	cc
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	conj
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lay	advmod
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 horse	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horse	nmod:poss
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burning	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 throat	nmod:poss
17	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burning	nsubj
18	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lay	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heaving	punct
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heaving	nmod:poss
21	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heaving	compound
22	heaving	heaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burning	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 going	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 going	nsubj
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 let	conj
28	round	round	ADV	_	27 going	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	adventurer	adventurer			tree rules
2	slide	infinitive	adventurer not said here		the earth		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Destination
3	lay down	infinitive	adventurer not said here			beside adventurer's horse; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside horse=Destination
4	burn	gerund	adventurer's throat	adventurer's chest heaving			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go round	gerund	adventurer's head			round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	heave		adventurer				nom heaving «event intransitive»: poss=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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