The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 46

He put spurs to his horse and dashed off, WHERE he neither knew nor cared.

Who acts: Florea · What happens: put, dash off, know, care · To what, where: spurs

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Florea), 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dashed	cc
8	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 put	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 dashed	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct
11	WHERE	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 knew	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
13	neither	neither	ADV	_	14 knew	advmod
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 cared	cc
16	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 knew	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	Florea	spurs	to Florea's horse	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal
2	dash off	participle	Florea not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	Florea		neither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	care	past	Florea not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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