The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 82

But after a few hours, by the magic arts of the old witch, he was overpowered by sleep, and the mare and foal escaped and did as they had been told to do.

Who acts: sleep, mare · What happens: overpower, escape, do, tell · To what, where: Iwanich, mare · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sleep, mare), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 overpowered	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 hours	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hours	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hours	amod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 overpowered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arts	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 arts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arts	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arts	amod
10	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hours	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 witch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 witch	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 witch	amod
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arts	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hours	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 overpowered	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 overpowered	aux:pass
18	overpowered	overpower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 sleep	case
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 overpowered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 escaped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 escaped	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mare	det
24	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 escaped	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 foal	cc
26	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mare	conj
27	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 overpowered	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 did	cc
29	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 escaped	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 told	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 told	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 told	aux:pass
34	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 did	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 told	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 overpowered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	overpower	past · passive	sleep	Iwanich	hour	tree rules
2	escape	past	the mare and foal			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	the mare and foal not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		mare		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	mare not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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