The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 53

At daybreak nest morning he drove his horses to the field, and brought them back in the evening without their ever having attempted to break away from him.

Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: drive, bring back, attempt, break away · To what, where: horses, field

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
3	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drove	nsubj
6	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horses	nmod:poss
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drove	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brought	cc
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drove	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	14 brought	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 evening	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 evening	det
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 attempted	mark
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 attempted	nmod:poss
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 having	advmod
23	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 attempted	aux
24	attempted	attempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 brought	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 break	mark
26	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 attempted	xcomp
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 break	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 break	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	Iwanich	Iwanich's horses	the field	morning		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to field=Trajectory
2	bring back	past	Iwanich not said here	horses = horse		evening		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	attempt	gerund · perfect	Iwanich not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	break away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Iwanich not said here				from Iwanich; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from he=Co-Patient

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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