The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 114

But when he came to the first cross-ways there lay a huge and terrible lindorm right across the road, so that his horses had to come to a standstill.

Who acts: prince, horses · What happens: come, lay, have · To what, where: first cross-ways, huge lindorm, road, standstill

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, horses), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 lay	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lay	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 cross-ways	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cross-ways	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 cross-ways	amod
8	cross-ways	cross-way	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
10	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lindorm	det
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lindorm	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 terrible	cc
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 huge	conj
15	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obj
16	right	right	ADV	_	19 road	advmod
17	across	across	ADP	_	19 road	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 had	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 horses	nmod:poss
24	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lay	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 come	mark
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 standstill	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 standstill	det
30	standstill	standstill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	prince		the first cross-ways; there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cross-way=Initial_Location
2	lay	present		a huge lindorm	the road	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lindorm=Result
3	have	past	prince's horses			tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	prince's horses not said here		a standstill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to standstill=Initial_Location

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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