The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 96

John’s horse, which had carried him so well, sank down from fatigue, and the little soldier sat sadly on the shore, watching the coach which was fast disappearing on the horizon.

Who acts: horse, little soldier, coach · What happens: carry, sink down, sit, watch, be, disappear · To what, where: horse, fatigue, shore, coach, horizon

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 (horse, little soldier, coach), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 horse	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 John	case
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sank	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 carried	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 carried	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carried	aux
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 horse	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 carried	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 horse	punct
12	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sank	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 fatigue	case
15	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sank	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soldier	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 soldier	amod
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sank	conj
22	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	21 sat	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 shore	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shore	det
25	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 watching	punct
27	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sat	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coach	det
29	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watching	obj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fast	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fast	cop
32	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coach	acl:relcl
33	disappearing	disappear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 fast	advcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 horizon	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 horizon	det
36	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 disappearing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect · passive		John's horse		well property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value
2	sink down	past	John's horse		fatigue	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	sit	past	the little soldier		the shore	sadly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location
4	watch	gerund	the little soldier not said here	the coach			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme
5	is	past	the coach			fast property	tree rules
6	disappear	gerund	the coach not said here		the horizon		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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