The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 79

There is a little horse in the stable which will not let anyone go near it, and it has already kicked to death several people who have tried to groom it.’

Who acts: little horse, several people · What happens: be, not let, go, kick, try, groom · To what, where: little horse, horse

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little horse, several people), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stable	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stable	det
8	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 let	obj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 horse	acl:relcl
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 let	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	near	near	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kicked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 kicked	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kicked	nsubj:pass
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 kicked	aux
21	already	already	ADV	_	22 kicked	advmod
22	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kicked	obl
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 kicked	obl:agent
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 tried	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 tried	aux
29	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 people	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 groom	mark
31	groom	groom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tried	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 groom	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a little horse in the stable		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not let	future		a little horse in the stable			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	a little horse in the stable not said here			near horse	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near it=Location
4	kick	present · perfect · passive	several people	horse		to death result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to death=Result
5	try	present · perfect	several people				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	groom not said to happen	to-infinitive	several people not said here	horse			vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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