The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 24

This he found without much difficulty, but the horses were all so shy that they galloped away directly he approached them.

Who acts: This, horses, man · What happens: find, be, gallop away, approach · To what, where: horses

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, horses, man), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 found	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 difficulty	case
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 difficulty	amod
6	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shy	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 shy	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horses	det
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shy	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shy	cop
12	all	all	ADV	_	14 shy	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 shy	advmod
14	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 galloped	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 galloped	nsubj
17	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shy	advcl
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 galloped	advmod
19	directly	directly	ADV	_	21 approached	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 approached	nsubj
21	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 galloped	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 approached	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	This		without much difficulty	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the horses		all, shy property	tree rules
3	gallop away	past	horses = horse		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	approach	past	man	horses = horse	directly property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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