The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 18

He crept up the horse’s leg, sat down under the saddle, and then began to pinch the horse and to prick it with a pin.

Who acts: messenger · What happens: creep up, sit down, begin, pinch, prick · To what, where: leg, saddle, horse

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), 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 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 crept	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leg	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 horse	case
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 saddle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 saddle	det
13	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 began	advmod
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 pinch	mark
19	pinch	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pinch	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 prick	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 prick	mark
24	prick	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pinch	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 prick	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 pin	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pin	det
28	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prick	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	messenger	the horse's leg				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past			the saddle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under saddle=Location
3	begin	past				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pinch	to-infinitive		the horse				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5	prick	to-infinitive		horse			with a pin	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with pin=Instrument

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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