The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 36

The youth liked the thought of this, let the foals run where they chose, and seated himself in the cleft of the rock by the side of the old hag.

Who acts: youth, foals · What happens: like, let, run, choose, seat, think · To what, where: thought, Master, cleft, this

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 (youth, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thought	det
5	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thought	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 liked	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foals	det
11	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 run	nsubj
12	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	parataxis
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 chose	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 chose	nsubj
15	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seated	cc
18	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 liked	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 seated	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 cleft	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cleft	det
22	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 rock	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rock	det
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cleft	nmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 side	det
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 hag	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hag	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hag	amod
32	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	past	the youth	the thought of this			tree rules
2	let	infinitive	the youth not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	run	present	the foals				tree rules
4	choose	past	foals = foal				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	seat	past	the youth not said here	Master	the cleft of the rock	by the side of the old hag	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in cleft=Location
6	think			this			nom thought «cognition 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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