The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 70

Here he spurred his horse and rode on; but the old beggar screamed so loudly after him that the Prince turned round and rode back to the oak tree.

Who acts: Prince, old beggar · What happens: spur, ride on, scream, turn round, ride back · To what, where: horse, oak tree

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince, old beggar), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 spurred	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spurred	nsubj
3	spurred	spur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spurred	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rode	cc
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spurred	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 rode	compound:prt
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 screamed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 screamed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beggar	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beggar	amod
13	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 screamed	nsubj
14	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spurred	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 loudly	advmod
16	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	14 screamed	advmod
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 screamed	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 turned	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Prince	det
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 screamed	advcl
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rode	cc
25	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 rode	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 tree	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
29	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tree	compound
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rode	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spur	past	Prince	Prince's horse	here			vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	ride on	past	Prince not said here					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	scream speech: express	participle	the old beggar			after Prince	loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn round	past	the Prince				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	ride back	past	the Prince not said here		the oak tree			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to tree=Trajectory

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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