The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 13

He caught the mare and foal, and having thanked the eagle he drove them cheerfully home again.

Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: catch, thank, drive · To what, where: mare, eagle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mare	det
4	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 foal	cc
6	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mare	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thanked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thanked	cc
9	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thanked	aux
10	thanked	thank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 caught	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eagle	det
12	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanked	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	nsubj
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eagle	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	obj
16	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	17 home	advmod
17	home	home	ADV	_	18 again	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 drove	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	catch	past	Iwanich	the mare and foal			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme
2	thank speech: thank	gerund · perfect	Iwanich not said here		the eagle		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
3	drive	past	Iwanich	mare		again	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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