The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 77

By midnight he knew he was no longer on his horse, but standing on the ground, though he could not have told how he got there.

Who acts: strength · What happens: know, not be, stand, not tell, get · To what, where: ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 longer	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 longer	cop
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 knew	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horse	nmod:poss
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 longer	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
14	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 told	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 standing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 told	advmod
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	aux
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 knew	parataxis
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 got	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 told	ccomp
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 got	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	strength		midnight		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	past	strength			on strength's horse; long property	tree rules
3	stand	gerund	strength not said here	the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
4	not tell speech: assert	could · perfect	strength				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	past	strength	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/20/77/