The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 32

In the grey light of dawn the Master of the Horse let out the seven foals, and off they went again over hill and dale, and off went the lad after them.

Who acts: Master, foals · What happens: let out, go, light · To what, where: seven foals, grey light, hill, lad, dawn

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, foals), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 light	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 light	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Master	det
8	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 let	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Horse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Horse	det
11	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Master	nmod
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 let	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foals	det
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 foals	nummod
16	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 let	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 went	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 let	conj
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 hill	case
24	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dale	cc
26	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hill	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
29	off	off	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 let	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lad	det
32	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obj
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	the Master of the Horse	the seven foals	the grey light of dawn			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme
2	go	past	foals = foal		hill and dale	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location
3	go	past	the Master of the Horse not said here	the lad		after foals = foal	off property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lad=Theme
4	light			dawn				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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