The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 19

The horse plunged and reared and then set off at a hard gallop, which it continued in spite of its rider’s efforts to stop it.

Who acts: horse · What happens: plunge, rear, set off, continue, stop, spite · To what, where: hard gallop, spite, horse, efforts

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 (horse), 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 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plunged	nsubj
3	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 reared	cc
5	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plunged	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 set	advmod
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reared	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 gallop	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 gallop	det
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gallop	amod
13	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 continued	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 continued	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 continued	nsubj
17	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gallop	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 spite	case
19	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 continued	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 efforts	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rider	nmod:poss
22	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 efforts	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 rider	case
24	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spite	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stop	mark
26	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 continued	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stop	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plunged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	plunge	past	the horse				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	rear	past	the horse not said here				vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	set off	infinitive	the horse not said here		a hard gallop	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	continue	past	horse	a hard gallop	spite of horse's rider's efforts		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	stop	to-infinitive	horse not said here	horse			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
6	spite			horse's rider's efforts			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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