The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 39

Then he neighed, and the mares came galloping up, eager to see the new comer--all but one horse, who did not like strangers, and thought they were very well as they were.

Who acts: stud, mares, one horse · What happens: neigh, come, gallop up, see, not like, think · To what, where: new comer, strangers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stud, mares, one horse), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 neighed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 neighed	nsubj
3	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mares	det
7	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 neighed	conj
9	galloping	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 galloping	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eager	punct
12	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 eager	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 comer	det
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comer	amod
17	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 horse	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 horse	det
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 horse	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 horse	nummod
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comer	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 like	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 like	advmod
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 horse	conj
28	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 like	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thought	cc
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 neighed	conj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 well	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 well	cop
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 well	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 thought	ccomp
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 were	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 were	nsubj
38	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 well	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 neighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	past	stud		then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the mares				tree rules
3	gallop up	gerund	the mares not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the mares not said here	the new comer but all one horse			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comer=Stimulus
5	not like	past · do-support	all one horse	strangers			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stranger=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	stud not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	mares = mare			well property	tree rules
8	be	past	mares = mare				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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