The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 92

Then John put spurs to his horse, calling with all his might ‘Stop! stop!’

Who acts: John · What happens: put, call, stop · To what, where: spurs, stop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 put	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 calling	punct
9	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 put	advcl
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	15 Stop	mark
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 Stop	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Stop	nmod:poss
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 Stop	aux
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Stop	punct
15	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 calling	advcl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 stop	punct
17	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Stop	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	John	spurs	then	to John's horse	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal
2	call	gerund	John not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	might	John not said here	stop			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stop=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 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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