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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 1

But the horse said, ‘Oh, never lose heart, but jump on my back, and make me go till the foam flies in flecks all about me.

Who acts: horse, me, foam · What happens: say, not lose, jump, make, go, fly · To what, where: heart, back, me, flecks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, me, foam), 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

ccdetnsubjpunctpunctdiscoursepunctadvmodccompobjpunctccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjobjxcompmarkdetnsubjadvclcaseobladvmodcaseoblpunctrootButCCONJtheDEThorseNOUNsaidVERB,PUNCT‘PUNCTOhINTJ,PUNCTneverADVloseVERBheartNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJjumpVERBonADPmyPRONbackNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmakeVERBmePRONgoVERBtillSCONJtheDETfoamNOUNfliesVERBinADPflecksNOUNallADVaboutADPmePRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_4 saidcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 horsedet
3horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing4 saidnsubj
4saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5,,PUNCT_10 losepunct
6‘'PUNCT_10 losepunct
7OhohINTJ_10 losediscourse
8,,PUNCT_7 Ohpunct
9neverneverADVPronType=Neg10 loseadvmod
10loseloseVERBVerbForm=Inf4 saidccomp
11heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing10 loseobj
12,,PUNCT_14 jumppunct
13butbutCCONJ_14 jumpcc
14jumpjumpVERBVerbForm=Inf10 loseconj
15ononADP_17 backcase
16mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 backnmod:poss
17backbackNOUNNumber=Sing14 jumpobl
18,,PUNCT_20 makepunct
19andandCCONJ_20 makecc
20makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf10 loseconj
21meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 makeobj
22gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf20 makexcomp
23tilltillSCONJ_26 fliesmark
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 foamdet
25foamfoamNOUNNumber=Sing26 fliesnsubj
26fliesflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 goadvcl
27ininADP_28 fleckscase
28flecksfleckNOUNNumber=Plur26 fliesobl
29allallADV_31 meadvmod
30aboutaboutADP_31 mecase
31meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 fliesobl
32..PUNCT_4 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe horsevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2not loseinfinitiveheartvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality
3jumpinfinitivemy backvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
4makeinfinitivemetree rules
5goinfinitiveme not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6flypresentthe foamflecksabout mevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fleck=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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