The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 35

When Désiré thought they could no longer catch him, he pulled his horse into a walk, like a prudent man who knows he has far to go.

Who acts: Désiré, servants, prudent man, horse · What happens: think, catch, pull, know, have, go · To what, where: Désiré, horse, walk · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Désiré, servants, prudent man, horse), 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	3 thought	advmod
2	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pulled	advcl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 catch	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	aux
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 catch	advmod
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 catch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pulled	nsubj
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	12 pulled	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 walk	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 walk	det
17	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 man	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 man	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walk	appos
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knows	nsubj
24	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 man	acl:relcl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 has	nsubj
26	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 knows	ccomp
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 has	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 far	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Désiré				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	catch	could	servants = servant	Désiré		long property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	pull	past	Désiré	Désiré's horse	a walk		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent horse=Result
4	know	present	a prudent man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have	present	horse			far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	go	to-infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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