The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 59

Next morning, in the grey light of dawn, the Master of the Horse let out the seven foals again, and off they set over hill and dale, through woods and bogs, and off went Cinderlad after them.

Who acts: Next morning, foals · What happens: let out, set, go, light · To what, where: seven foals, hill, 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 (Next morning, 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 light	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Master	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Master	det
12	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 light	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Horse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Horse	det
15	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Master	nmod
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 let	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 foals	det
19	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 foals	nummod
20	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 let	obj
21	again	again	ADV	_	16 let	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
24	off	off	ADP	_	26 set	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	nsubj
26	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 let	conj
27	over	over	ADP	_	28 hill	case
28	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dale	cc
30	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hill	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 woods	punct
32	through	through	ADP	_	33 woods	case
33	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 set	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bogs	cc
35	bogs	bog	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 woods	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
38	off	off	ADV	_	39 went	advmod
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 let	conj
40	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 went	flat
41	after	after	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 went	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	Next morning and the grey light of dawn and the Master of the Horse	the seven foals		again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme
2	set	present	foals = foal		hill and dale		through woods and bogs	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over hill=Destination
3	go	past	Next morning and the grey light of dawn and the Master of the Horse not said here			after foals = foal	off property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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