The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 106

Outside stood his faithful charger, pawing the ground.

What happens: stand, paw · To what, where: faithful charger, ground

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Outside	outside	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 charger	nmod:poss
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 charger	amod
5	charger	charger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pawing	punct
7	pawing	paw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pawing	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		Milan's faithful charger				outside property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer charger=Stimulus
2	paw	gerund		the ground					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=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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