The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 39

‘On! on!’ cried the horse; ‘it will fare ill with you if you stop.’

Who acts: sound, you · What happens: cry, fare, stop · To what, where: horse

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
2	On	on	ADP	_	4 on	case
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 on	punct
4	on	on	ADV	_	7 cried	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 on	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 on	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fare	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 fare	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fare	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fare	aux
14	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
15	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fare	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 ill	obl
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 stop	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 stop	nsubj
20	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fare	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the horse		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	fare	future	sound		ill property	tree rules
3	stop a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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