The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 111

He sat astride on the goat, struck his heels into its side, and went rattling down the high-road like a hurricane.

Who acts: BLOCKHEAD · What happens: sit, strike, go, rattle · To what, where: heels, side

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BLOCKHEAD), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	astride	astride	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 goat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goat	det
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 struck	punct
8	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heels	nmod:poss
10	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 struck	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 side	nmod:poss
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
17	rattling	rattle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 went	xcomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	22 road	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 road	det
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 road	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 high	punct
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rattling	obl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 hurricane	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hurricane	det
25	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rattling	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	BLOCKHEAD		on the goat; astride property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on goat=Location
2	strike	past	BLOCKHEAD not said here	BLOCKHEAD's heels	into goat's side result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent heel=Patient into side=Result
3	go	past	BLOCKHEAD not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rattle	gerund	BLOCKHEAD not said here		down the high road; like a hurricane	vn animal_sounds-38 «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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