The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 25

His father too possessed a horse which he often used to take out into the fields to graze.

Who acts: father, snail · What happens: possess, use, take out, graze · To what, where: horse, fields

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 (father, snail), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possessed	nsubj
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 possessed	advmod
4	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possessed	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 used	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 used	nsubj
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 used	advmod
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 horse	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 take	compound:prt
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fields	det
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 graze	mark
18	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	possess	past	snail's father	a horse			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme
2	use	past	snail	a horse		often property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	take out	to-infinitive	snail not said here		the fields		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	graze	to-infinitive	snail not said here				vn dine-39.5 «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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