The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 91

Once clear of the stable the young man sprang on his back and galloped off, calling over his shoulder, ‘Hi! dragon! dragon! if anyone asks you what has become of your horse, you can say that I have got him!’

Who acts: young man, anyone, you, I · What happens: spring, gallop off, call, ask, become, say · To what, where: back, shoulder, you, dragon dragon, Dragon · 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, anyone, you, I), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	2 clear	mark
2	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dragon	advcl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stable	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stable	det
5	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clear	obl
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	5 stable	appos
9	sprang	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 man	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sprang	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 galloped	cc
14	galloped	gallop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sprang	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 galloped	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 calling	punct
17	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sprang	conj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 shoulder	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoulder	nmod:poss
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calling	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Hi	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Hi	punct
23	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	17 calling	discourse
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 clear	punct
25	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dragon	compound
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 dragon	punct
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 become	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 dragon	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 asks	mark
30	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 asks	nsubj
31	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 become	advcl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 asks	obj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 become	nsubj
34	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 become	aux
35	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 horse	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 horse	nmod:poss
38	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 become	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 say	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 say	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 say	aux
42	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 become	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 got	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 got	nsubj
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 got	aux
46	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 say	ccomp
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 got	obj
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 say	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	gerund	the young man not said here			man's back		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
2	gallop off	past	the young man not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	gerund	the young man not said here			man's shoulder		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	anyone		you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	become	present · perfect		dragon dragon			of your horse	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	say speech: assert	can	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	get	present · perfect	I	Dragon				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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