The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 26

Now this horse was not like other horses, for it was a talking horse, and knew a great deal about many things, so it answered, ‘Fear nothing, and do as I tell you.

Who acts: horse, I · What happens: not be, be, know, answer, do, tell · To what, where: talking horse, great deal, nothing, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 horses	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 horses	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 horses	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horses	amod
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 horse	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 horse	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 horse	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 horse	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 horse	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
14	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 horse	compound
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horses	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 horse	appos
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 deal	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 deal	amod
21	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knew	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 things	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 deal	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 answered	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 answered	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 answered	nsubj
28	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knew	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 nothing	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 nothing	punct
31	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nothing	compound
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 answered	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 do	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 do	cc
35	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 nothing	acl:relcl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 tell	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 tell	nsubj
38	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 do	acl:relcl
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 tell	iobj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past				like other horses and a talking horse	tree rules
2	is a	past	horse	a talking horse			tree rules
3	know	past		a great deal		about many things	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
4	answer speech: assert	past	horse	nothing			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	do	present					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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