The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 86

He stretched his hand cautiously out to seize the bridle, when the horse suddenly began to neigh as loud as he could.

Who acts: youth, horse · What happens: stretch, seize, begin, neigh · To what, where: hand, bridle

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stretched	obj
5	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	2 stretched	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 seize	mark
8	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stretched	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bridle	det
10	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seize	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 began	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 began	advmod
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 neigh	mark
18	neigh	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 loud	advmod
20	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 neigh	xcomp
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 could	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 could	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 loud	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	youth	youth's hand	out property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	seize	to-infinitive	youth not said here	the bridle		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme
3	begin	past	the horse		suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	neigh	to-infinitive	the horse not said here		loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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