The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 6

The horses at once ran away and hid themselves in the clouds, which hung down from the mountains in soft billowy masses.

Who acts: horses, clouds · What happens: run away, hide, hang down · To what, where: horses, clouds, mountains

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 (horses, clouds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horses	det
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 ran	obl
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hid	cc
8	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 hid	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 clouds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clouds	det
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hung	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 hung	nsubj
15	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 clouds	acl:relcl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 hung	advmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 mountains	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mountains	det
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hung	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 masses	case
21	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 masses	amod
22	billowy	billowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 masses	amod
23	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 mountains	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run away	past	the horses			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
2	hide	past	the horses not said here	horses = horse	the clouds		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in cloud=Location
3	hang down	past	the clouds		the mountains in soft billowy masses	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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