The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 29

When they see the horses they will at once imagine them to be the cause of the disturbance, and will drive them out.

Who acts: hens · What happens: see, imagine, be, drive out · To what, where: horses, cause, hens

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 (hens), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 see	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 imagine	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 imagine	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 imagine	aux
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 imagine	obl
10	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 imagine	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	15 cause	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 cause	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cause	det
15	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 imagine	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 disturbance	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 disturbance	det
18	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cause	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drive	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drive	cc
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 drive	aux
22	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 imagine	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drive	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	22 drive	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	hens = hen	the horses		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
2	imagine	future	hens = hen	horses = horse		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		the cause	of the disturbance	tree rules
4	drive out	future		hens = hen		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=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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