The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 78

‘And, indeed, I had to hold on with all my might, for her horrible steed trotted so violently that it positively took my breath away.

Who acts: I, horrible steed, it · What happens: have, hold on, trot, take away · To what, where: breath

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, horrible steed, it), 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	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 And	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hold	mark
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 hold	compound:prt
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 might	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 might	det:predet
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 might	nmod:poss
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hold	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trotted	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 trotted	mark
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 steed	nmod:poss
18	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 steed	amod
19	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trotted	nsubj
20	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 violently	advmod
22	violently	violently	ADV	_	20 trotted	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 took	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
25	positively	positively	ADV	_	26 took	advmod
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 trotted	advcl
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 breath	nmod:poss
28	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
29	away	away	ADV	_	26 took	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I		indeed property	tree rules
2	hold on	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trot	past	girl's horrible steed		violently property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take away	past	it	my breath	away, positively property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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