The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 88

After waiting a little while the young man tried again to loose the horse, but a second time it neighed so loudly that the dragon woke up in a hurry and called out to know why the horse was making such a noise.

Who acts: young man, horse, dragon · What happens: wait, try, lose, neigh, wake up, call out · To what, where: little, horse, hurry, noise · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young man, horse, dragon), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 waiting	mark
2	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tried	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waiting	obl
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 tried	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 tried	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 loose	mark
12	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loose	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 neighed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 neighed	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 neighed	obl:unmarked
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 neighed	nsubj
21	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tried	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 loudly	advmod
23	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	21 neighed	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 woke	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dragon	det
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 woke	nsubj
27	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 neighed	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 woke	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hurry	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hurry	det
31	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 woke	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 called	cc
33	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 hurry	acl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 called	compound:prt
35	to	to	PART	_	36 know	mark
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 called	advcl
37	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	41 making	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 horse	det
39	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 making	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 making	aux
41	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 know	ccomp
42	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	44 noise	det:predet
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 noise	det
44	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 making	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	the young man not said here	a little				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	the young man			again		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	the horse				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
4	neigh	past	horse			time	loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wake up	past	the dragon		a hurry			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	call out speech: assert	participle		a hurry not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	know	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	make	past · progressive	the horse	such noise				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product

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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