The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 18

The beast shied, opened its wide nostrils and tossed its mane, then rearing high up in the air, its hind feet slipped and it fell with its rider down the steep mountain side.

Who acts: beast, hind feet · What happens: shy, open, toss, rear, slip, fall · To what, where: beast, wide nostrils, mane, air, steep mountain side

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 (beast, hind feet), 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	2 beast	det
2	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	nsubj
3	shied	shy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 beast	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 beast	punct
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nostrils	nmod:poss
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nostrils	amod
8	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tossed	cc
10	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mane	nmod:poss
12	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tossed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rearing	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 rearing	advmod
15	rearing	rear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tossed	advcl
16	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 up	advmod
17	up	up	ADV	_	15 rearing	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rearing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slipped	punct
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
23	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feet	amod
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 slipped	nsubj
25	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rearing	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 slipped	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 rider	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 rider	nmod:poss
31	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
32	down	down	ADP	_	36 side	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 side	det
34	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 side	amod
35	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 side	compound
36	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shy	participle		the beast not said here				tree rules
2	open	past	the beast	beast's wide nostrils				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nostril=Theme
3	toss	past	the beast not said here	beast's mane				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mane=Patient
4	rear	gerund	the beast not said here		the air	then		vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	slip	past	beast's hind feet					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	fall	past	beast		the steep mountain side		with beast's rider	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down side=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 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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