The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 42

Just as the horsemen were about to ford the river, a hare, startled by the sound of the horses’ hoofs, started up from the grass and ran towards the thicket.

Who acts: horsemen · What happens: be, ford, startle, start up, run · To what, where: river, grass, thicket

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horsemen), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 about	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 about	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horsemen	det
4	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 about	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ford	mark
8	ford	ford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ford	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hare	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hare	det
13	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 river	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 startled	punct
15	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 river	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 sound	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 startled	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 hoofs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horses	det
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hoofs	nmod:poss
22	’	's	PART	_	21 horses	case
23	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sound	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 started	punct
25	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 about	parataxis
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 started	compound:prt
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 grass	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 grass	det
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 started	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ran	cc
31	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 started	conj
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 thicket	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 thicket	det
34	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ran	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the horsemen			about property	tree rules
2	ford	to-infinitive	the horsemen not said here	the river and a hare			tree rules
3	startle	participle		the river and a hare not said here		by the sound of the horses's hoofs	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	start up	past			the grass		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	run	past			the thicket		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards thicket=Destination

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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