The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 136

But the brothers rode on so fast that dust and sparks flew all around, and they reached the gate of the town a good hour before Blockhead-Hans.

Who acts: brothers, dust · What happens: ride on, fly, reach · To what, where: gate

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 (brothers, dust), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 rode	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 rode	compound:prt
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 rode	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 flew	mark
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sparks	cc
11	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dust	conj
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	advcl
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 around	advmod
14	around	around	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reached	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reached	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gate	det
20	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 town	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gate	nmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hour	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hour	amod
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obl:unmarked
27	before	before	ADP	_	30 Hans	case
28	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Hans	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Blockhead	punct
30	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ride on	past	the brothers			fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	fly	past	dust and sparks			around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	past	brothers = brother	the gate of the town	before Blockhead Hans; hour		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme

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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