The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 7

The Prince was eager to catch it, if possible, so they gave chase and rode on without stopping until all the horses began to founder beneath them.

Who acts: Prince, men, horses · What happens: be, catch, give, ride on, stop, begin · To what, where: sight, chase

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, men, horses), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eager	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eager	cop
4	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eager	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 possible	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 possible	mark
10	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eager	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 gave	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eager	parataxis
15	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rode	cc
17	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gave	conj
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 rode	advmod
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 stopping	mark
20	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 rode	advcl
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 began	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 horses	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horses	det
24	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stopping	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 founder	mark
27	founder	founder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 founder	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eager	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince		eager property	tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	sight		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	be a condition, not said to happen		the Prince not said here			tree rules
4	give	past	men = man	chase		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme
5	ride on	past	men = man not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	stop	gerund	men = man not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	begin	past	all horses			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	founder	to-infinitive	all horses not said here		beneath men = man	tree rules

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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