The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 26

From all sides the horses rushed pressing round, and each one that passed him fell on its knees to do him honour.

Who acts: horses, one · What happens: rush, press, pass, fall, do, honour · To what, where: sides, man, knees

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 (horses, one), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 sides	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sides	det
3	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rushed	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rushed	nsubj
6	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 rushed	xcomp
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 pressing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 passed	nsubj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 passed	obj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rushed	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 knees	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knees	nmod:poss
19	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fell	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fell	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	obj
23	honour	honour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 do	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	the horses		all sides		tree rules
2	press	gerund	the horses not said here			round property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	pass	past	each one	man			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory
4	fall	past	each one		knife's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
5	do	to-infinitive	each one not said here	man			tree rules
6	honour	infinitive	each one not said here				tree rules

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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