The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 45

And all day long the feeling grew stronger, till the next morning he mounted his horse, and in spite of his wife’s tears, he rode off to the mountain.

Who acts: feeling, man · What happens: grow, mount, ride off, spite · To what, where: horse, spite, tears

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 grew	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feeling	det
6	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 grew	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mounted	punct
10	till	till	ADP	_	13 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 morning	amod
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mounted	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mounted	nsubj
15	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 horse	nmod:poss
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mounted	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rode	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rode	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 spite	case
21	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rode	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 tears	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tears	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 wife	case
26	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spite	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spite	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rode	nsubj
29	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mounted	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 rode	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 mountain	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mountain	det
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rode	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the feeling			day	long, strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mount	past	feeling	man's horse		morning		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	ride off	past	man		spite of man's wife's tears		to the mountain	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to mountain=Trajectory
4	spite			man's wife's tears				nom spite «feeling 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 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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