The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 16

The following day he started in the same way; the horse trod on the glass as if it had been level earth, and sparks of fire flew from its hoofs.

Who acts: neighbourhood, horse, way, sparks, fire · What happens: follow, start, tread, be, fly, spark · To what, where: same way, glass, hoofs

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (neighbourhood, horse, way, sparks), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 trod	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trod	nsubj
13	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 started	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 glass	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 glass	det
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trod	obl
17	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	23 earth	case
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 as	fixed
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 earth	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 earth	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 earth	cop
22	level	level	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 earth	amod
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trod	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flew	cc
26	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flew	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 fire	case
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sparks	nmod
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trod	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 hoofs	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hoofs	nmod:poss
32	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flew	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	neighbourhood	the same way	day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tread	past	the horse	the glass			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on glass=Trajectory
4	is	past · perfect	way			as level earth	tree rules
5	fly	past	sparks of fire	way's hoofs			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hoof=Trajectory
6	spark		fire				nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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