The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 43

The young Prince pursued the little creature, and had almost overtaken it, when the girth of his saddle suddenly broke in two and he fell heavily to the ground.

Who acts: young Prince, girth · What happens: pursue, overtake, break, fall · To what, where: little creature, creature, two

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 (young Prince, girth), 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 Prince	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Prince	amod
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pursued	nsubj
4	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creature	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creature	amod
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pursued	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 overtaken	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 overtaken	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 overtaken	aux
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 overtaken	advmod
12	overtaken	overtake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 pursued	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overtaken	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 broke	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 broke	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girth	det
17	girth	girth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broke	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 saddle	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 saddle	nmod:poss
20	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 girth	nmod
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 broke	advmod
22	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pursued	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 two	case
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 broke	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 broke	conj
28	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	27 fell	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pursue	past	the young Prince	the little creature			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
2	overtake	past · perfect	the young Prince not said here	creature		almost property	tree rules
3	break	past	the girth of Prince's saddle		two	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location
4	fall	past	girth			to the ground; heavily property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme

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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